http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex
Around 70% of Japanese women leave their jobs after their first child. The World Economic Forum consistently ranks Japan as one of the world's worst nations for gender equality at work. Social attitudes don't help. Married working women are sometimes demonised as oniyome, or "devil wives". In a telling Japanese ballet production of Bizet's Carmen a few years ago, Carmen was portrayed as a career woman who stole company secrets to get ahead and then framed her lowly security-guard lover José. Her end was not pretty.
I wouldn't say wanking is a problem, if anything it's a
red pill, kinda what BasicRed said but in a much worse environment. Censorship was imposed by the west long ago, and west jerks off to furry and incredibly mediocre deviantart sheit.
It's what the others have said: dehumanizing working culture + emancipation of women = having a family becomes a liability. Why have a partner and two kids if you're never at home to enjoy them? You wake up aged 50 that they don't even know who you are.
CharAznableCustom wrote...
The lack of kids in Japan isn't due to a fear of genitals, lol!
Japanese people love to fuck. There's a reason Japan has such a huge porn industry (even if it's pixelated) with so many people in it and consuming it. They just hate having kids. Japanese work culture is fucking terrible and women are fucked when they have kids. Maternity leave is strongly discouraged, paternity leave is not a thing, and people often get demoted/fired when they have kids. Losing a second income is obviously devastating in a country with wage stagnation like Japan. If the wife somehow manages to keep her job there's inadequate child care to look after it. If the family isn't lucky enough to have an older generation to help raise the kid then an already difficult proposition becomes basically impossible.
The Japanese government knows all of this and is attempting to increase the role of women in the workplace, add childcare services, and a bunch of other things but fighting so much cultural inertia against women in the workforce and coming up with methods of staffing daycares is challenging.
The bolded is not exactly correct.
A survey in 2011 found that 61% of unmarried men and 49% of women aged 18-34 were not in any kind of romantic relationship, a rise of almost 10% from five years earlier. Another study found that a third of people under 30 had never dated at all. (There are no figures for same-sex relationships.) Although there has long been a pragmatic separation of love and sex in Japan – a country mostly free of religious morals – sex fares no better. A survey earlier this year by the Japan Family Planning Association (JFPA) found that 45% of women aged 16-24 "were not interested in or despised sexual contact". More than a quarter of men felt the same way.