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Fewer Japanese People Got Married Last Year Than Any Time Since the End of World War II

Casey Baseel reports: Bad news for the country’s declining birth rate is accompanied by rosier development about divorce. With Christmas being the biggest date night of the year in Japan, there’s still a lingering atmosphere of amour in the [...]

[VIDEO] Young Japanese People are Not Having Sex

Nearly a third of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, leaving the country facing a steep population decline. Greg Wilford reports: Nearly a third of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual [...]

[VIDEO] Japanese-American YouTube Couple Discuss Marital Arguments, Culture Clash

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Hiromi Tanaka, 54, says she relies on income from giving private singing lessons to a dwindling number of students, and her mother's pension to make ends meet. | REUTERS

Japan’s Middle-Aged ‘Parasite Singles’ Face Uncertain Future

Linda Sieg and Ami Miyazaki report: Their youth long gone, members of Japan’s generation of “parasite singles” face a precarious future, wondering how to survive once the parents many depended on for years pass away. Some 4.5 million [...]

Meet Zheng Jiajia & Yingying: Chinese Man ‘Marries’ Robot He Built Himself

Zheng Jiajia had grown tired of pressure to get married so he turned to Yingying, a robot spouse he constructed last year. Benjamin Haas writes: A Chinese artificial intelligence engineer has given up on the search for love and “married” a robot [...]