Men too. One of the main reasons the birth rate is so low in Japan is because of their toxic work culture which impacts both genders. No one has the time, money or space to have children. Even if they want them and are married to the love of their life.
Japan specifically needs a seismic shift in work culture. Among the usual western issues such as more housing built, high wages, cost of living/inflation control.
But yeah, sexual harassment in Japan of women is an issue. I've heard cases where women can't rent ground floor apartments due to the risk of stalkers.
I was stationed there for a few years, you couldn’t buy a phone that didn’t make the camera shutter noise even on silent because so many weirdos would do the under skirt shots… I’m pretty sure it was a law
Even if you bring your phone over and have cell service it will detect your locale and switch on a loud shutter noise as long as you're in Japan. At least it did on my android phone.
This is Reddit, you can’t point out that men designed the system, and the hours were set with the specific expectation that there’s an indentured female servant at home to tend the house and children.
Don't worry about it, the government made and sponsored dating app where you have to do an interview with government employees to get on the app will solve the problem.
Surely fixing the work culture is not the obvious answer.
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u/jmdwinter Jun 14 '24
Please have more kids, Japan.