Before Tetsuya Kato met Widya of Indonesia, an international marriage would probably have seemed highly unlikely to him. He only speaks Japanese and the farthest place he has ever been to is Hokkaido.
Widya Sulistyorini, 31, is from a family who may consider international marriages unorthodox, as neither her parents nor three sisters had ever left Indonesia before she married Kato in 2006.
The two met in a bread factory in the city of Soka, Saitama Prefecture, and have built a happy family with a 10-month-old daughter.