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posted: 02:40 pm ET
13 October 1999
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Weekly World News: Alien Marriage Still Uphill Struggle
A Japanese woman and the space alien she learned to love are nearing their 7-year wedding anniversary, the Weekly World News reported recently.
Receptionist Miyoki Tanaka, 25, married the extraterrestrial known only as "X1431" on March 29, 1993, in a traditional Shinto ceremony, the supermarket tabloid said in its October 19 issue.
The couple lives in an isolated area near Nagoya, Japan, where they were married after an involved two-year negotiation between their families. The aliens, who were hoping to bolster the cause of interplanetary cooperation and peace by arranging the nuptials, have since acted in an unspecified capacity to help the Tanaka family's restaurant business.
"We've both had to make a lot of adjustments," Tanaka told the News. "He has a nasty habit of floating around the room at night, which is distracting when you're trying to sleep."
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While undoubtedly fascinating, any parallels between X1431 and Japanese folkloric entities remain obscure as yet. However, it is noteworthy that the alien hates Tanaka's cooking, preferring to subsist on a diet of "shoe polish and brine," and is given to producing earsplitting shrieks when excited.
Because X1431 has never bothered to learn Japanese or English, the couple communicates telepathically. In a wedding photograph credited to the "Japan News Press," he is shown as a classic small-nosed Gray in formal kimono. Tanaka appears sullen but resigned.
No children are mentioned.
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