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Onuki, a 31-year-old salesman, is headed to the train station to catch the 12:24 a.m. train, the last one of the night, back to his home in Yokohama. The train will quickly fill up with other professional working men.
At about 1:30 a.m., after having made a pit stop at a convenience store to grab a sandwich, Onuki arrives home. When he opens the bedroom door, he accidentally wakes his wife, Yoshiko, who just recently fell asleep after working an 11-hour day. She chides him for making too much noise and he apologizes.
Then, with his food still digesting and his alarm set for 7 a.m., he creeps into bed, ready to do it all again tomorrow.
Over the past two decades, stories like the Onukis' have become commonplace in Japan. Young couples are fighting to make relationships work amid a traditional work culture that expects men to be breadwinners and women to be homemakers. It's a losing battle. Many newlyweds are forced to watch their free time disappear, surrendering everything from the occasional date night to starting a family.
The daily constraints have made for a worrisome trend. Japan has entered a vicious cycle of low fertility and low spending that has led to trillions in lost GDP and a population decline of 1 million people, all within just the past five years. If left unabated, experts forecast severe economic downturn and a breakdown in the fabric of social life.
"Adult diapers have outsold baby diapers in Japan for the last six years."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @01:33PM
After a few minutes of research I can tell you that the swedish rape rate is massively overinflated. First off, their law deals with sex crimes differently and lumps them all in together. Second, because of such lumping, that number includes crimes and other offences that arent what we Americans do not consider rape. Paying for sex, aka prostitution? Thats a sex crime that gets lumped into their statistic. Plus, each incident is recorded. So one woman reporting twenty different incidents against her drunken husband is 20 reports in that statistic. And lastly, what they don't tell you is that many of the refugee/migrant sex crimes are against their own people.
And let's just ignore that sex crime in sweden has been on a downtrend since 2010 BEFORE the migrants/refugees began arriving. And they have been taking in such people for decades.
I hate religion and think people who believe in it are FUCKING STUPID. And I think Islam is one of the worst of the bunch (also includes government and law, what could possibly go wrong?). But you can't make shit up and expect people to believe it. Some of us actually research outrageous claims. It's why I think trumpies are particularly retarded. They just ate up every little bit of "news" and statistics and voted.