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A few days ago, the Japanese government issued a white paper to help young men and women find objects through DNA matching.
This DNA pairing, in a nutshell, is that DNA testing is performed first by both men and women before the blind date. In the process of blind date, both sides usually wear masks, do not see each other’s looks, and do not disclose each other’s age, occupation, income and other information.
Everything is only determined by one number: the degree of DNA matching.
If the NDA matching degree of both men and women is 70 or more, it means that the matching degree is high and the speed can be matched.
In reality, Japan has already married couples who have successfully married through DNA pairing.
The whole life is determined by the DNA that was inherited thousands of years ago.
Moreover, this test is not completely scientific and reasonable, but also two.
Sounds crazy?
But Japan is really anxious.
The Japanese marriage rate has fallen below 5%, setting a record low of 70 years after World War II.
A low marriage rate means a low fertility rate. There is a saying that according to the gap between Japan’s death toll in 2018 and the number of births of 448,000, Japan will disappear from the earth after 283 years and be defeated by itself.
(DNA matching test conducted by a large matchmaking office in Tokyo)
1. More than 1/5 Japanese men die and are not married
For the Japanese, getting married is an increasingly heavy word.
According to the 2015 census data of the Japanese government, the proportion of men who have never been married before the age of 50 is 23.37%, and that of women is 14.06%, which is 5.8 times and 3.3 times that of 1985.
Unmarried before the age of 50, it was defined as the “lifetime unmarried rate”, which basically meant that it was isolated from marriage for a lifetime.
(Japanese lifelong unmarried rate ratio, blue for men, red for women)
Correspondingly, the number of marriages in Japan in 2018 was less than 59,000 pairs, the lowest after the war, and more than 20,000 people were reduced from the previous year. In the same period, according to the National Basic Survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, the proportion of singles aged 65 and over has risen to 27.4%.
This year’s survey on the willingness to marry once again reveals the attitude of Japanese indifference to marriage. According to NHK, less than one-third of people in Japan believe that marriage is “reasonable,” and 68% feel that they can “not get married”.
Among them, young people in their 30s are the army that resists marriage: 100 peopleThere are 88 accepted for life without marriage.
At the end of 2018, NHK also broadcast a documentary about seven single women group pensions, which attracted many people. Most of the 7 elderly people in this documentary are unmarried for life, and they choose to live with the same-sex and help each other, waiting for death.
(seven old ladies in the documentary)
It can be seen that unmarried marriage has long been ingrained in Japan. Even if you choose to live in the same age and same-sex, you will not marry for the elderly.
It’s not a personal matter to get married, but it’s not so simple for society.
Bare marriage is eroding the foundations of Japanese society.
2. Japanese society with low desires
The unmarried doctrine brought prosperity to the single economy.
The “cat economy” is an obvious example. According to Professor Kanmoto Katsuhiro of Kansai University, in 2015 alone, the industry related to cats brought over 2.32 trillion yen to Japan (about 1394 The economic value of RMB exceeds the Japanese first idol group AKB48.
The increase in unmarried people has also spawned a group: the otaku. It is the otaku and house girl we usually say. According to a survey conducted by the Yano Institute of Economics in Japan in 2018, the spending of the otaku people on idols reached 1300,543 yen (about 6,500 yuan) The number of otaku in the comics field has exceeded 6 million.
In addition, single-person karaoke rooms, single-person wedding dresses, single-person restaurants and other “one-person” services are also increasing, and even movie theaters have begun to book isolation locations for individual customers.
(single restaurant)
But actually, Japan has suffered from the unmarried doctrine.
After the Second World War, Japan had two birth peaks. The first time was from 1947 to 1949. The number of births per year was over 2.6 million, which was called the “Block Age”. The second time was from 1970 to 1975, with more than 2 million newborn babies each year, known as the “small mass” era.
The two baby boomers contributed to the economic recovery of Japan after the war. Even in the 1980s and 1990s, Japan directly pushed Japan to the throne of the world’s second power.
More importantly, they also made the identity of Japan’s most populous country. After nearly 10 years of population decline, Japan is now ranked No. 11 in terms of the 62nd country area, showing that the two baby boomers contributed.
(World Population Rankings)
Today, the babies born in the mass era are old. They are 45 years old and 73 years old, which constitute the main force of the Japanese white hair wave.
But this is also the two generations who ignore marriage and birth.
Since 1985, the lifelong unmarried rate in Japan has increased by two or three percentage points every five years. At the same time, the decline in the birth rate is also unstoppable.
In Japan, only 918,000 babies were born in 2018, the lowest level ever.
The demographic dividend has brought a series of economic disasters to the younger and even older children.
First of all, it is the inevitable decline of small and medium-sized cities and rural areas. According to estimates by the National Institute of Social Security and Population Studies, the population of all prefectures and counties in Japan will decrease from 2030 onwards. By 2045, the population reduction rate of 70% of municipalities and villages (compared with 2015) will exceed 20%, becoming a substantial ” Ghost Town” “Ghost Village”.
Many local governments even issued policies to give away surplus rural houses for free, but the results were minimal.
(the corner of a deserted village in Japan)
Secondly, Japan is slipping into the abyss of low desires, and the whole society has become hopeless, and this corresponds to the continued downturn in consumption.
The famous Japanese management scientist Daisuke Kenichi wrote a book for this purpose, called “Low Desire Society”, which summed up the embarrassing situation facing Japan in the words “there is no ambition”: young people don’t want to get married, don’t want to Consumption, no material desires, the entire Japanese economy is sluggish.
(“The Low Desire Society” book cover)
Innocent desire, in Japan, the performance is vivid.
Even if the bank credit rate is repeatedly lowered (Now Japan’s mortgage rate for 20 years and above is about 1.3%, you can pay down to 0), 30 years old The former buyers are still declining year by year; consumers are scornful of luxury goods, and they take the LV bag that was fired in Japan in 2000. It has disappeared since 2005; the house culture is prevalent, and the three meals a day are solved…
Of course, what is more serious is that Japan will fall into an old and endless ending. On the one hand, unmarried people have no children to take care of after their old age, and even no one knows the old dead family.
It is reported that there are 47,000 people dead in Japan each year (no one comes to the end of the corpse), which has given birth to a new profession – Lonely dead scene cleaner.
On the other hand, the reduction of the young and middle-aged labor force has led to an increase in the pension gap.Old people with savings are destined to be desolate.
In June of this year, the Japan Financial Services Agency released a report saying that a Japanese couple will only earn 50,000 yen per month if they only rely on pensions in their old age (about RMB 3,200) gap.
This also gave birth to a group: the old man (the elderly who struggle at the bottom of society).
It has been reported that people who have been arrested in Japan for stealing things in the store account for 1/3 of the elderly over 65 years old. In 2018 alone, there were 80,000 people.
The old people are often stealing things like sandwiches, rice balls and so on.
Among them, some elderly people deliberately do it, just to get caught and go to the prison to support the elderly.
3. Please marry and have a child for the country
There are various difficulties, and the Japanese government is also very anxious. It has already started a war with a low marriage rate, but it has always been effective.
One put and one is the two fists of the Japanese government.
The so-called release means that the Japanese government spends money to encourage marriage and childbearing. In order to alleviate the worries of young people after marriage, the Japanese government not only provides free access to kindergartens for school-age children, but also subsidies for childcare leave, low-income families to enjoy day-care services free of charge, and low-income families to reduce tuition fees.
For example, the Japanese government issues a “children’s salary” every month: 1,000 yuan for children aged 1 to 3 years old and 700 yuan for children aged 4 to 16 years old. The Japanese government can be said to be painstaking in order to “promote marriage” and “nurturing.”
Where does that huge amount of financial expenditure come from? The government turned its attention to single people, the so-called income.
In October of this year, Japan will raise the consumption tax rate from 8% to 10% after a lapse of five and a half years, and the income will be tilted to the childcare family.
It is estimated that after the tax increase, the average monthly expenditure of the Japanese single group will increase by 3,600 yen (about 240 yuan), which is considered by the outside world It is a single tax in disguise.
In addition, Japan’s film and television dramas that appeal to nationals to inspire their enthusiasm for marriage have gradually increased. From 2012 to 2015, the number of wedding dreams is 1 to 3, and in 2016 it will increase to 6 and in 2017 it will increase to 8 again. Like “The penultimate love”, “I am destined to be a man”, “Marriage Battle”, etc. are all the wedding dramas that have been broadcasted in recent years.
Even the “Travel Frog” game launched in Japan two years ago is considered to be a wedding color.
More importantly, Japan is keeping up with the forefront of the times and applying high technology to “nuptial marriage.”
A marriage promotion center with a government background in Ehime Prefecture used big data to match the basic information of registered members and academic backgrounds, and increased the rate of meeting between men and women from 13% to 29% in 2015~ In 2016, 228 couples were promoted.
In addition, high-tech forced marriage methods such as robotic generations and robots helping people to leave the house have become popular in Japan.
(DNA Matching Marriage Advertising for a Japanese Matching Agency)
4. It is economically ill
Although the Japanese government has introduced a number of wedding measures from top to bottom, it is obvious that the results have been minimal.
Because the cause is the economy.
In the early 1990s, the Japanese economy collapsed and it has since entered a recession and flood season for more than 20 years. In the case of individuals, it is a decrease in income, an increase in work pressure, and an increase in the difficulty of finding a job.
Traditional Japanese families are single-employee families, that is, male and female female heads. Once a woman is married, she must withdraw from the workplace and teach her. Before the economic collapse, the Japanese were generally optimistic about the future. Many Japanese women thought that even if men are not earning high income, the future will be better, and the demand for men will not be high.
After the economy enters a recession, the public becomes pessimistic about the future.
In order to ensure the latter half of life, women have increased their economic requirements for men.
However, during the economic downturn, Japanese employees expected their incomes to fall, their jobs became unstable, and it was difficult to meet the rising demands of women. The two sides naturally lost the opportunity to form a family.
Japanese women generally believe that men’s annual income is 4 million yen (about 250,000 yuan) or more before they consider marriage.
In actual terms, 74.9% of single men in Japan earn less than 4 million yen a year. Under this condition, most single men are turned away.
Last year, NHK surveyed 3,980 men and women aged 20 to 40 who wanted to get married. Among them, 26.6% said they didn’t have enough money to marry.
And as women continue to enter the workplace and become economically independent, if they want to give up their careers and choose marriage and family, the opportunity cost will undoubtedly increase a lot. Matsui Miki, head of a publisher in Tokyo, said: One of the reasons why women get married is to get financial stability. I don’t have to choose to get married for economic reasons.
So, unless men have high incomes and work is stable, it is possible for women to give up their careers and join the family. If the economic conditions of men do not meet the standards, women will choose to continue their careers. Anyway, they will not be able to eat or drink.
Another problem with the collapse of the economic bubble is the increase in informal employees and the decline in corporate welfare.
According to statistics, the proportion of male informal workers in Japan has exceeded 50% in recent years. These employees change jobs frequently and their incomes are unstable. It is not easy to take care of themselves, let alone maintain the feelings of the other half.
In the NHK documentary “Marriage Difficulties: Unmarried Unstoppable”, one example is given: a software development company based in Nagano City, where men and women are often married 20 or 30 years ago.
But with the bursting of the Japanese economic bubble, the company’s operations are struggling, and it’s hard to come up with a lot of money to organize welfare activities such as staff travel, and there’s very little marriage in the company.
Again, the intensity of the work beyond 996 has also hindered the Japanese marriage process. For many company employees, they work more than 2 hours a day, and they work overtime until late at night. The home and the company are two points in line. It is difficult to have a chance to cultivate feelings in such a life.
According to the survey, 50% of Japanese men and 40% of Japanese women attribute the reason for not getting married to “the other half of the ideal.”
In an environment where you change jobs frequently and work overtime from late to night, you want to meet the ideal half, which is a luck.
(Many Japanese turn to inflatable dolls for comfort)
Marriage and childbirth are the natural rights of people. What the government has to do is not to hold the knife on the neck of the people, forcing them to marry and have children early.
The only thing the government can do is to create a good external environment.
However, under the guise of the unmarried atmosphere, does the government really try to create an environment suitable for marriage and childbearing?
This seems to be a vicious circle: the rate of unmarried marriages rises → the rate of fertility declines → the number of children is aging, the economy is aging → the pressure on work and life is increasing → the rate of unmarried marriages is rising…
Once caught in it, it is difficult to jump out.
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