Japan
is a country infamously in decline – population-wise. So much so that analysts
have predicted that if the national birthrate continues at its glacial pace of
1.39 children per woman the nation will be “extinct” in
1000 years.
But two stories have come out
this morning which may have shed a little more light on the alarming subject.
Today, The Daily Yomiuri reported
that one in three Japanese men feel they can’t get married, while another 35.3
per cent said they don’t want to marry.
Of the 450 men surveyed, many
felt that their own economic insecurities prevented them from getting married,
even though they wanted to.
What’s more, while almost 90 per
cent of respondents said that they would like to have a child, almost 75 per
cent said they weren’t sure of they could earn enough to pay for living
expenses and education for the baby.
Such statistics are a sobering
thought, given how few children there are in Japan these days.
But an even greater problem for
the respondents who want to marry is their self confidence. Almost half of the
men in their 20s felt they were unpopular with women.
Which brings me to the second of
the two articles.
Rocket News 24 reports that an online poll by NTT Docomo
reveals that over 10,000 people have not had their first kiss by the time they
enter tertiary education.
Of those 10,000, more than 5,700
had not been kissed until they had entered the workforce and a further 331 had
not had their first kiss until they were over 31.
But it gets worse. The category
that received the second highest number of votes was “never kissed”.
Yes, over 6,000 of the poll
participants had never experienced their first kiss.
The complete results of the
almost 37,000 votes are as follows:
When did you have you first kiss?
(36,818 votes total)
1. High school (9878 votes)
2. Never kissed (6119 votes)
3. Middle school (6021 votes)
4. After entering workforce and
before 31 (5771 votes)
5. College (4262 votes)
6. Preschool/Kindergarten (2423
votes)
7. Elementary school (2029 votes)
8. After 31 (331 votes)
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