Posted on 09/17/2016 3:21:38 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
More than forty per cent of young singletons in Japan are virgins, according to a new study that highlights concerns about the country's demographic challenges. Japan already suffers from the world's oldest population and a shrinking birthrate, with the government struggling to incentivise marriage and parenthood.
Now a survey of unmarried people aged 18 to 34 found that around 42 per cent of men and 44.2 per cent of single women had never had sex.
The study is carried out by Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security every five years.
The country's government has worked hard to booth the birthrate in recent years, providing incentives such as support for child care and tax breaks.
The new data however indicates, that, if anything Japanese men and women are growing apart.
Nearly 90 per cent of the respondents said they want to get married “sometime in the future.”
But 30 per cent of the 2,706 men sampled and 26 per cent of the 2,570 female respondents said they were not currently looking for a relationship.
“They want to tie the knot eventually. But they tend to put it off as they have gaps between their ideals and the reality,” Futoshi Ishii, head researcher for the study, told Japan Times. “That’s why people marry later or stay single for life, contributing to the nation’s low birthrate.”
The lack of sexual activity can seem at odds with a society saturated with sexual images, from television and manga comics to city billboards.
But recent years have seen a shift in traditional family structures, and a protracted economic slowdown as a global powerhouse, which has reportedly resulted in many men struggling to hold down secure, full-time jobs.
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The old Caliphs used to use the white slaves for progeny due to the excessive in-breeding of the general arab population.
Japanese people are hugely sensitive to causing embarrassment, losing face.
Japanese males are comparatively risk-averse.
A recent cultural import to Japan is the feminist concept of SEXUAL HARASSMENT, and when you throw that into the face of dudes who are risk averse and whose greatest personal fear is inducing embarrassment and avoiding rejection...?
You get a population threat that rivals that of nuclear weapons.
STUPID? Yup. But it’s true.
I think that the first country in which you will have common ownership of sexBots will be Japan, and THEN you will see fertility problems ON A TOTALLY DIFFERENT SCALE.
Invest in Japanese cat and ice-cream companies, I don’t care HOW hot the chicks are.
Now that you mention it, she
looks Mexican to me.
I wonder if she follow Hinduism. At least the Hindus have a God [well, 330 million of them]. The Japanese don't. They are into hero and ancestor worship
I was watching a tennis match when I was in Asia and the Japanese competitor was half black. It was very strange.
An economic downturn that makes it impossible to pay off debts and save toward home ownership, doesn't help.
She’s half Indian.
Amazing how the liberal media can spin this story.... first of all, it's meaningless to talk about such percentages within a sub-group without any reference to how big that sub-group is relative to the entire group. Secondly, since when is virginity a bad thing when the people being referred to in this story are all unmarried? Virginity is status that ALL unmarried people should have. Now if the story had of suggested that they were married and still virgins, that would be serious cause for alarm. The problem here isn't virginity, it's a culture that doesn't have a mature and sensible view of what marriage is.
The only Japanese men who do NOT beat their wives are the Samurai.
Marriage and children (if chosen) are based on a belief in a better future.
The Japanese young people don’t see it.
What should give everyone pause is that these are intelligent and perceptive young people.
Oh, I'm sorry. BUT, at least the Indian men don't beat their wives as Japanese men do. GOOGLE it. It's common knowledge.
The only Japanese husbands who DON'T beat up their wives are the Samurai. I bet her DAD is Indian...SMART mother. She decided NOT to spend her married life being beaten up with regularity.
I wonder if dad had her become Hindu...and I wonder which of Indian's 330 million gods she worships. She's a winner nevertheless.
My husband and I visited India for a few weeks. He was POSITIVE that somewhere in India SOMEone was worshiping a '56 Chevy!
Not the only but yes a Samurai tended not to be foolish enough to beat his wife. His wife was usually the daughter of another Samurai and was trained to kill.
The threat of death tends to remind you to keep a lid on your temper.
So I am instructing the ignorant and admonishing the sinners. I do not want the USA to go the way of Japan.
Though the people who will take up after our culture fails, are already saying "Inshallah."
Meh, I lived there for 12 years and I speak Japanese fluently.
In SOME realms Japanese men DO reign supreme —American feminists are mostly correct, there.
At home...? The man is SODAI GOMI —the awkwardly-sized garbage collected only on one day of the month. The man commonly has NO input on the family finances at all. The female makes ALL those arrangements.
This is almost completely unknown in the USA.
In case of divorce it is very common for the kids to NEVER speak to the dad again —he becomes a stranger or a topic broached maybe once yearly. Even former Prime Minister Koizumi had spoken to his son maybe...twice..?
Japanese dudes get screwed over by their companies, then they come home and are dominated by their wives, who outrank them in the home.
(And don't tell my wife. She's half Cherokee and swings a mean tomahawk.)
It’s the little dicks.
Since MOST humans have dark brown hair and brown eyes, it's not unusual.
Also, American Indians from Canada to Tierra del Fuego have SIBERIAN hunter group DNA, that is, Oriental DNA. The first humans in the Americas were white, Euro humans. They hunted the mammoths. They would drive a beast into a deep pit then have at him. Some hunters didn't make it out of that trap and skeletal remains have been found.
They had OVAL shaped heads, like Caucasians. Oriental Asians have ROUND heads...so those first Americans were NOT Asian.
Your intuition was correct. Her mother is Japanese, and her father is Indian. Agree with you, that she’s beautiful. Wish her well for the next round in Dec.
So some guy who is a DICKHEAD would have the, er, larger limb.
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