No Sex Please, We're Nipponese

"Good news for once? I'm going (Too late!) nuts worrying over every single little thing, what horror may I remove from the Platter of Troubles?" asks the concerned viewer.

Well, you can stop worrying about another Pearl Harbor, or the Japanese dominating the future: The land of tentacle porn is on a higher spiritual plane, & they no longer want to fuck; they probably won't be much for fighting. (Unless it's all sublimation & their sexual energy is again being turned to war or absolute economic hegemony.)

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.

Don't be dissauded, it runs until (5:15). Then (Why?) it repeats.

Official alarmism doesn't help. Fewer babies were born here in 2012 than any year on record. (This was also the year, as the number of elderly people shoots up, that adult incontinence pants outsold baby nappies in Japan for the first time.) Kunio Kitamura, head of the JFPA, claims the demographic crisis is so serious that Japan "might eventually perish into extinction".

Sayonara, anthill nation! Maybe that's their problem. They should go all in on the insect deal; a few queens & males for breeding & the rest can be happy sexless drones.This is the most upbeat story we've seen in some time. There may be hope for a nihilistic future, as soon as the rest of you fucking sheep wise up as the Land o' The Rising Sun has.

Japan's under-40s won't go forth and multiply out of duty, as postwar generations did. The country is undergoing major social transition after 20 years of economic stagnation. It is also battling against the effects on its already nuclear-destruction-scarred psyche of 2011's earthquake, tsunami and radioactive meltdown. There is no going back. "Both men and women say to me they don't see the point of love. They don't believe it can lead anywhere," says Aoyama. "Relationships have become too hard."

Marriage has become a minefield of unattractive choices. Japanese men have become less career-driven, and less solvent, as lifetime job security has waned. Japanese women have become more independent and ambitious. Yet conservative attitudes in the home and workplace persist. Japan's punishing corporate world makes it almost impossible for women to combine a career and family, while children are unaffordable unless both parents work. Cohabiting or unmarried parenthood is still unusual, dogged by bureaucratic disapproval.

How many times have we told you that marriage is a corrupt bourgeois institution? Did you listen? When will the other industrialized "democracies" wise the fuck up & stop depleting planetary resources w/ their ugly & stupid children?