Japan singletons hit record high

Record numbers of young Japanese do not have boyfriends or girlfriends, and many do not want one, according to a survey by the country's government.


Sixty-one percent of unmarried men aged 18 and 34 do not have a partner, nor do half of unmarried women the same age.


The numbers have increased since the previous survey in 2005.


Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world - and its population is on course to shrink dramatically by the middle of the century.


So every five years the government carries out a detailed survey of attitudes to sex and marriage.

The latest found that 61% of unmarried men aged 18 to 34 have no girlfriend, and half of women the same age have no boyfriend - a record high.


More than a quarter of the men and 23% of the women said they were not even looking.


Some cited a shortage of money, others a belief that it is impossible to find a good partner once they had passed the age of 25.


Many of the women also said single life suited them better than how they imagined marriage would be.


The survey also found that more than quarter of unmarried men and women between 35 and 39 years old said they had never had sex.


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[/URL]Japanese are going to be extinct one of these days...

Maybe the population isn't really going to grow afterall. People don't make near as much kids anymore in developed countries and it seems some don't want any at all. As for 3rd world countries, there's the food problem. Food just won't last for every new billion of people.

Almost seems like that one scenario where population would actually drop down might be correct...

Some cited a shortage of money, others a belief that it is impossible to find a good partner once they had passed the age of 25.
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The survey also found that more than quarter of unmarried men and women between 35 and 39 years old said they had never had sex.

Seems like my lifestory, except that I would love to have a partner.

I was reading a discussion on this. From what I gathered, Japanese culture is extremely private with matters of relationships and sex, so this data could be entirely skewed by falsified answers from participants.

I was reading a discussion on this. From what I gathered, Japanese culture is extremely private with matters of relationships and sex, so this data could be entirely skewed by falsified answers from participants.

And some of the 39% married Japanese men are married to anime pillows, game characters etc.