Anthony Deville always dreamed of marrying an Asian woman.
Fascinated by Japanese arts and culture, the 39-year-old Frenchman found his "better half" in Japan, Mayura, 35.
Mayura may be as exotic a woman as a Frenchman managing an Italian restaurant could hope to find. As the daughter of a Buddhist priest in Tokyo's "shitamachi" (downtown) district, she has to be versatile. She cleans the temple, cooks meals for her father and does other chores for the temple every day.