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MaxFisher on 17 October 2018

>Some 44 per cent of unmarried women and 42 per cent of unmarried men in Japan admitted they were virgins in The 2015 National Fertility Survey.

This is just of unmarried people. Highly misleading.

>The study also found 60 per cent of women and 70 per cent of men aged 18-34 said they were single.

So roughly 30% of women and men below 34 if you can trust the numbers.



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Pemalite on 17 October 2018
Rab said:
That's a very similar statistic to the vgchartz user base ;P

Just going to make a general thread warning and try and steer everyone away from such remarks/jokes if we can.
Stay on-topic and constructive if we can.



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crissindahouse on 17 October 2018
Ganoncrotch said:
I love that people overlook some basic shit in surveys like this.... half of the under 40s are virgins?!!! man that's shocking.... did you know that more than 25% of the people under 40.... are 10 or under, think about the ages included in the survey before you start to imagine anime girls falling from the tree's over there begging for Senpai to notice them, considering that the age of consent there ranges from 13-18 depending on the region (damn you survey for making me google that, now I have that weird question in my google history forever lol) that means that if keeping to the age of consent and of course the law there, people will say they've not had sex before that age when surveyed because it would be a crime to suggest otherwise.

If someone handed you a survey which said had you downloaded pirated TV shows and software off the internet... would you not hesitate slightly before ticking "of fucking course I have I know what a computer is"

so yeah....

Survey covers a group of people that around 50% of whom wouldn't be legal to have sex, since obviously anyone who dies before the age of 18 would fall into that half but no one is going to be in the region of 18-40 without having been alive for the first 18 years, so if you look at the numbers from a realistic point of view... it means that 100% if not more of the people who could be having legal sex... are having sex.

 

I'm sure the 'national fertility survey' didn't ask 5 years old and this survery is obviously about those who are allowed to have sex

Not sure how you didn't think about that 



RJTM1991 on 17 October 2018

It's heartbreaking to see.

Edit: Edited comment.

Last edited by RJTM1991 - on 16 December 2023

Kristof81 on 17 October 2018

Or maybe, Japan's few decades ahead of the western world and that's more or less our future. The future where our social skills reach such low, where we can't or don't know how to properly socialise. The future where we're being asked to work more and more hours, leaving us with little to no time for any non-professional human interaction, gimping even further our already poor social skills. The future where the only thing we're comfortable with is electronic entertainment to give us this quick endorphin rush, in that little time slot we have left, just to feel like we're still alive, before it's time to go to bed and start another pointless day.



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m0ney on 17 October 2018
flashfire926 said:
Japan really needs to ease up on their immigration policies. Bring more people in to offset the decline in population.

The last I read 10% of their population are immigrants, and that was like a decade ago.



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Peh on 17 October 2018

Time to move to Japan....I heard that they like cats.



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TheWPCTraveler on 17 October 2018
vivster said:
Great news. The sooner they lower immigration restrictions the better.

Ignoring the possible sampling errors leading to this finding, this is of course only part of the equation.

Presenting, a chart of birth data:

So far, Japan looks to be clinging on to its population a lot better than its developed Asian neighbors. And, of course, Japan is already importing semi-skilled labor and skilled labor through temporary work visas (and a lot of them go to Filipinos -- great track record! consider hiring us instead, hmm?)
So, no, Japan does not need to pull a Germany. At least, not as much as its neighbors. Nice try, though.

 



 
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ZODIARKrebirth on 17 October 2018

that is reall shocking, didn't expect that, but i know that japanese people are very busy at working, maybe that could be a reason too



crissindahouse on 17 October 2018
TheWPCTraveler said:
vivster said:
Great news. The sooner they lower immigration restrictions the better.

Ignoring the possible sampling errors leading to this finding, this is of course only part of the equation.

Presenting, a chart of birth data:

So far, Japan looks to be clinging on to its population a lot better than its developed Asian neighbors. And, of course, Japan is already importing semi-skilled labor and skilled labor through temporary work visas (and a lot of them go to Filipinos -- great track record! consider hiring us instead, hmm?)
So, no, Japan does not need to pull a Germany. At least, not as much as its neighbors. Nice try, though.

  

 

Japan has a TFR of 1.43 and low immigration. That looks really bad, not sure why you don't think it looks bad. Even a TFR of 2 is not enough without some decent immigration if you want to stop a decreasing and aging population.

And yes, there might be countries with even bigger problems than Japan has with it.