Narita divorce
n.— «So familiar is the very short marriage in Japan that the parting has earned a slang name: Narita divorce, after Japan’s main international airport.» —“Till baggage carousel do us part” by Deborah Cameron in Tokyo The Age (Australia) Sept. 11, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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