Source of graph: Japan’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research More than a year ago, in March 2012, I did a post on an alarming phenomenon in Japan — increasing numbers of Japanese young people are asexual. At the same time that the Japanese population is rapidly aging (the percentage of Japan’s population aged 65 and over is expected to increase from 22.7% in 2009 to almost 40% by 2050), researchers found that more and more of the country’s young people are shunning the idea of marriage and having children. One in four unmarried men and women in their 30s say they have never had sex, and the majority of young women prefer the single life. Nearly half the respondents of both genders said they do not want to date anyone. More than 25% of both unmarried men and women in their late 30s have never had sex. Now a new report shows just how bleak life is in Japan, for both single and married people. Michael Hoffman reports for Japan Times, Aug. 31, 2013: [...] Japan is a lonely, lonely country, if two reports, one in Spa magazine and the other in the weekly Aera, reflect the true state of things.
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