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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: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday May 23 2017, @08:21PM (2 children)
Sure, here you go. [japantimes.co.jp] It was only a google search away.
But since we're insisting on "evidence to back it up", how about you provide some some proof for your lazy assertion that Japan's low rape stats have anything to do with their immigration rates?
Interestingly, the wikipedia page where you got your statistics (which, by the way, you should be more careful with - your Scotland figure and Japan figures were from different years) show that the muslim country of Pakistan has rates well below the US, Scotland and the other countries you mentioned. A country with very similar per-capita rates to Japan is Canada, which (as I'm sure you know) has one of the Western world's most open immigration policies. [theguardian.com]
Want to try again?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @10:46PM (1 child)
Pakistan is the sort of place where it would be insane to report a rape. You might find yourself killed by your family if you reported it. You might find yourself in trouble with the law, for sex outside marriage, if you reported it.
Japan isn't like that. Japan is just better.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday May 23 2017, @10:54PM
Better to a degree, yeah. But apparently it's still not the sort of place where rapes routinely go all the way from reporting to prosecution to conviction to punishment, so I'd say it's not all the way better.
Well done for completely ignoring the rest of my post, btw.