{"id":244,"date":"2004-06-03T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=244"},"modified":"2004-06-03T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T14:27:37","slug":"no-sex-please-were-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/06\/03\/no-sex-please-were-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"No sex please &#8212; we&#8217;re Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/usatonline\/20040603\/6255200s.htm\">USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace; line-height: 100%;\"><p>Nothing is happening with depressing regularity between Japanese men and women these days. Marriages, births and hanky-panky are all spiraling downward with troubling implications for the nations future: A sagging birthrate means that fewer working-age people will be around to support a growing population of elderly; a social crisis looms.<\/p>\n<p>Only in Japan would a popular weekly newsmagazine deem it necessary to exhort the nations youth to abstain from sexual abstinence: &#8216;Young people, dont hate sex,&#8217; AERA magazine pleaded last month in a report detailing a precarious drop in sales of condoms and in business at Japans rent-by-the-hour &#8216;love hotels.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>More and more Japanese men and women are finding relationships too messy, tiring and potentially humiliating to bother with anymore. &#8216;They dont want a complicated life,&#8217; says Sakai, who has written a controversial bestseller, Cry of the Losing Dogs, on the plight of unmarried Japanese thirtysomething women like herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From USA Today: Nothing is happening with depressing regularity between Japanese men and women these days. Marriages, births and hanky-panky are all spiraling downward with troubling implications for the nations future: A sagging birthrate means that fewer working-age people will be around to support a growing population of elderly; a social crisis looms. Only in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2004\/06\/03\/no-sex-please-were-japanese\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No sex please &#8212; we&#8217;re Japanese&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}