That the Japanese love American culture is not news. That they are paying a lot of money for Americans to pretend to be priests so they can have Western-style weddings is. It seems the youth of Japan would rather have a lavish, Christian-style wedding and fill out civil paperwork than have a traditional Shinto ceremony. The best part is the description of what they get for the money: a fake priest who “will show up on time, remember his lines, not mix up names and perform the ceremony in 20 minutes.”

Perhaps most interesting is that the fake chapels are in unusual locations, including on the sixth floor over a supermarket.

Somehow, I don’t see that catching on here….