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Young Japanese men are taking some of the blame for Japan's population decline.
Studies show young males are apathetic about dating, and disinterested in sex.
One college student says, "It's not that guys don't like women. But it's just easier and more fun to hang out with other guys."
Another says, "If you want a date, you have to ask the guy out yourself."
Once a male chauvinist paradise, Japan is suddenly the home of assertive women and so-called "grass-feeder" men -- sensitive, even asexual creatures, overshadowed by their female peers.
Many commentators in the Japanese and international media have laid the problem squarely at the feet of soshoku danshi -- "herbivore men" -- a term coined by pop culture columnist Maki Fukasawa in 2006. It refers to Japanese young men who have rejected their culture's traditional definition of masculinity, and seemingly eschew relationships with the opposite sex as part.
CNN spoke to a Midori Saida, a 24-year-old Japanese woman who described "herbivore men" as "flaky and weak."
"We like manly men," she said. "We are not interested in those boys -- at all."
BBC News spoke to one such "herbivore" man (see video above). The man, Yusaki Yakahashi said: "Building a relationship seems like too much effort. To get her to like me and for me to like her... I'd have to give up everything I do at the weekend for her. I don't want to do that."
Another theory that seeks to explain Japan's shrinking population is that Japanese youth spend too much time engaged with technology, living in virtual worlds or settling for virtual girlfriends rather than real ones.
Britain's Daily Telegraph reports that Japan's government has undertaken a series of campaigns to encourage couples to have more children -- including making companies insist that their staff leave work at 6 pm to increase child allowances -- but according to Dr. Kunio Kitamura, head of the Japan Family Planning Association, "none of that is gong to have an impact if people are not going to have sex."
Full articles here:
Sex turns off many young Japanese men: Studies
Japan Population Decline: Third Of Nation's Youth Have 'No Interest' In Sex
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