They’ve done a good bit of research on this and you’ll find a rabbit hole of articles to follow up on it. Japan is suffering from the same effects as everyone else, just in a different way. The global economy has been in decline these past couple of decades as prices go up and wages stagnate. Japanese work culture generally tacks onto this by pushing for long hours and tedious extra duties (lots of pointless meetings, not leaving before the boss even with workload done, and mandatory social gatherings). It makes having a social life difficult and the idea of starting a family more daunting.
Men and women both are prioritizing their careers and forgoing the marriages and kids. At least until they’re older and have made a life for themselves.
Of course most other nations also have the benefit of immigrant labor. Japan not so much. Which is good in that is doesn’t create as much wealthy inequality and crimes rates stay low. But bad in that it impacts the labor force quite a bit.
I’m pretty sure the Japanese government is reaching a point they’re going to start subsidizing the cost of homes for families with children, offering higher tax breaks, limiting working hours, improving maternity/paternity leave, and most importantly they need publicly funded daycares for infants/children that operate year-around and outside of school semesters. Fewer and fewer families are able to rely on their parents/grandparents to watch their kids while they work and that factors into this heavily.
These changes, limiting work hours and improving government support for families, would see an increase in birth rates.
Most of the young women are with their oshi such as hosts and idols. I think even with the remaining third of men, many are likely using p-katsu
Some surveys say 2/3 of unmarried men in their 20s are not *currently* in relationship.
27% of 25-29 years old men are married, so about 1 in 2 men in their late 20s are not currently in relationship at any given time which sounds not too suprising as most people have gap years.
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Staying single.
They’ve done a good bit of research on this and you’ll find a rabbit hole of articles to follow up on it. Japan is suffering from the same effects as everyone else, just in a different way. The global economy has been in decline these past couple of decades as prices go up and wages stagnate. Japanese work culture generally tacks onto this by pushing for long hours and tedious extra duties (lots of pointless meetings, not leaving before the boss even with workload done, and mandatory social gatherings). It makes having a social life difficult and the idea of starting a family more daunting.
Men and women both are prioritizing their careers and forgoing the marriages and kids. At least until they’re older and have made a life for themselves.
Of course most other nations also have the benefit of immigrant labor. Japan not so much. Which is good in that is doesn’t create as much wealthy inequality and crimes rates stay low. But bad in that it impacts the labor force quite a bit.
I’m pretty sure the Japanese government is reaching a point they’re going to start subsidizing the cost of homes for families with children, offering higher tax breaks, limiting working hours, improving maternity/paternity leave, and most importantly they need publicly funded daycares for infants/children that operate year-around and outside of school semesters. Fewer and fewer families are able to rely on their parents/grandparents to watch their kids while they work and that factors into this heavily.
These changes, limiting work hours and improving government support for families, would see an increase in birth rates.
Most of the young women are with their oshi such as hosts and idols. I think even with the remaining third of men, many are likely using p-katsu
Some surveys say 2/3 of unmarried men in their 20s are not *currently* in relationship.
27% of 25-29 years old men are married, so about 1 in 2 men in their late 20s are not currently in relationship at any given time which sounds not too suprising as most people have gap years.