Japan's Population Drops by Nearly 800,000 With Falls in Every Prefecture For the First Time

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A part of that Culture is that Japan for being creators of Technology, still are stuck themselves in the 'Old Ways' and 'Tradition'.

A good chunk of resturants don't accept card, but currency still. However per the Atlantic 6 years ago, another societal concept that really hurts... is the concept of the Man being the Main Breadwinner. This and a ton of societal changes need to happen now before it gets severe.

In a culture that places such an emphasis on men being breadwinners, this has serious implications for marriage and childbearing. Men who don’t have regular jobs are not considered desirable marriage partners; even if a couple wants to get married, and both have irregular jobs, their parents will likely oppose it, according to Ryosuke Nishida, a professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology who has written about unemployment among young workers. About 30 percent of irregular workers in their early 30s are married, compared with 56 percent of full-time corporate employees, according to Kingston. “Japan has this idea that the man is supposed to get a regular job,” Nishida says. “If you graduate and you don’t find a job as a regular employee, people look at you as a failure.” There’s even a tongue-in-cheek Japanese board game, Nishida told me, called The Hellish Game of Life, in which people who don’t land a regular job struggle for the rest of the game.

 
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