The Japanese sex problem has become so desperate that its young population has given up on dating and is just marrying friends.<\/p>\n
A government survey found 69% of Japanese men and 59% of Japanese women do not have a romantic partner.<\/p>\n
One\u00a0<\/span>Japanese\u00a0<\/span>aggregator website has since been awash with stories of how people have simply married lifelong friends.<\/p>\n The country has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, with just 8.4 children being born per 1,000 inhabitants over the past five years.<\/p>\n Its population of 127 million people is predicted to\u00a0<\/span>decrease to 87 million by 2060.<\/p>\n The survey, carried out by the country’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, also reported that about 80% of unmarried Japanese want to get married.<\/p>\n In recent weeks, people have posted stories to the aggregator website\u00a0<\/span>Matome Naver, telling how in one case a colleague married a friend of 10 years.<\/p>\n The trend has been coined “Kousai zero Nichikon”: roughly translated as “marrying without dating.”<\/p>\n Japanese actress Maki Horikita married costar Koji Yamamoto in 2015 after just a month of dating.<\/p>\n A column in the\u00a0<\/span>Joshi Spa magazine\u00a0<\/span>last month compared hunting for a marriage partner with suicide.<\/p>\n There is no real evidence that the kousai zero nichikon trend is taking the far-eastern islands by storm.<\/p>\n But it draws parallels with Japan’s now mostly defunct omiai arranged-marriage tradition, in which parents suggested partners for their adult children.<\/p>\n After the sexual-partners survey was released earlier this year, columnist and sociologist\u00a0<\/span>Maki Fukasawa\u00a0<\/span>criticized the media’s use of his own term to describe the sex problem: “Herbivore men.”<\/p>\n\n The Japanese sex problem has become so desperate that its young population has given up on dating and is just marrying friends. A government survey found 69% of Japanese men and 59% of Japanese women do not have a romantic partner. One\u00a0Japanese\u00a0aggregator website has since been awash with stories of how people have simply married …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391],"tags":[582,581,548,583],"yoast_head":"\n