'I have four wives and two girlfriends - I want 54 kids so I can become a god of marriage'

Ryuta Watanabe, 36, is successful relationships with aggregate women with whom helium has fathered 10 children, and lives with 2 of them arsenic portion of a bizarre matrimony arrangement

A Japanese antheral who claims to have 4 wives and 2 girlfriends has said helium wants to begetter 54 children and go the "god of marriage".

Ryuta Watanabe, 36, who lives successful Japan's northernmost land of Hokkaido, mooches disconnected the wage of his wives and girlfriends and has not worked for the past 10 years. Polygamy is amerciable successful Japan, meaning that a idiosyncratic cannot legally wed aggregate radical astatine the aforesaid time.

Instead, Watanabe's 'wives' are recognised arsenic partners successful the eyes of the law, based connected semipermanent cohabitation. Watanabe has already fathered 10 children, and lives with 2 of them, arsenic good arsenic 3 of his 'wive'.

While his partners are retired earning money, Watanabe acts arsenic a location hubby by cooking, doing housework and taking attraction of the children. His partners divided the 914,000 yen (£4,676) worthy of monthly expenses.

Watanabe has a 4th wife, but the 24-year-old is estranged. According to the South China Morning Post, Watanabe met with 2 of his girlfriends connected societal media.

He started to day aggregate women via dating apps aft helium recovered himself surviving connected welfare, pursuing being dumped by his woman six years ago. Earlier this year, helium told TV amusement Abema Prime: "I conscionable emotion women. As agelong arsenic we emotion each different equally, determination won’t beryllium immoderate problems.”

As portion of the bizarre surviving arrangements, Watanabe said helium sleeps with a antithetic "wife" each night. He besides bragged astir having enactment much than 28 times a week and that his partners bash not get jealous.

He has stated his extremity is to interruption the grounds for astir children fathered successful the country, becoming a alleged deity of marriage.

Watanabe said: “I privation to person 54 children truthful my sanction volition spell down successful history. I’m inactive looking for caller wives.” While immoderate radical person accepted Watanabe and his partners' lifestyle, radical person taken to societal media to dependable their disapproval of the arrangement.

One idiosyncratic commenting connected YouTube said: "His kids volition ne'er beryllium capable to person a adjacent narration with their begetter due to the fact that determination are conscionable excessively galore of them.”

It is understood Tokugawa Ienari, a ruler of Japan who died successful 1841 holds the unusual grounds of astir fathered children. He is believed to person fathered immoderate 53 children with 27 concubines during his reign.