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Her past job
But she did have some worries that Singaporeans might judge her for her previous gravure idol job.
"In Japan, people don't have a bad impression of it. It's a normal job, like a model," she said.
"But there isn't this sort of thing in Singapore. So I was a bit worried at first."
She need not have worried. Her husband — who she met at their then-mutual job, at a Japanese company in Singapore — didn't think much of it.
"He wasn't surprised. He just said 'oh, that was your previous job? No wonder you're so cute'," she said.
Marrying a Singaporean
But how did she end up married to a Singaporean man?
Mariya said that when she first met her husband, he was "not [her] type" at all.
But after getting to know him, she became enamoured with his calm and kind character, she said.
He was similarly attracted to her cheerful, open personality.
So they began to date.
But it wasn't easy at first. "It was so hard... my English was not so good [back then]," she said.
"Even a five-minute conversation would take around 30 minutes. Because we used an app to translate... It was very slow."
The proposal
But there were good things that made the struggles worth it, Tachibana said.
"For me, it was his… what’s inside, his character. That was the most important part to me.
So at that moment… I thought that I want to spend time with him."
Two years after they started dating, he proposed, in Tokyo Disneyland. It was in front of her mother, her best friend, and his family.
It was something she'd casually mentioned previously: that she wanted to be proposed to in front of the most important people in her life.
It was mostly a joke, she said. "He didn’t even have my best friend’s contact number… so, how?"
But he took it seriously. Last year, while on a trip to Japan, he got down on one knee with a bouquet of roses and a ring.
Four months later, they were married.
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