Look having read the majority of the terribly written article that a lot of those figures are drawn from https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/young-single-people-in-japan-aren-t-having-sex-and-the-reason-is-proving-fatal which is where a lot of the OP's links cite as being the ones who looked deeper into the numbers, the analysis and interviews done by that outlet are done pretty much to get hits for the site, which they've done with fairly decent success, keep in mind that one of the links in the OP is also a 2 year old article based on something different but it's a good clickbaity title none the less.

I'm not going to waste more of my own time on this trash survey/article though but I will say this, you think that they asked any amount of 18 year old males if they had sex or not... and got an honest answer? from that point on you should know that the numbers in the survey are going to be no real indication of the real world, I would almost point out that the % of 18 year olds who might be doing a survey legitimately.... are going to be those who aren't having sex... because normal 18 year olds have better things to be doing than fill out surveys.

I couldn't find the actual data from the survey btw after checking through 2 of the articles but all I could find was %'ages and certain age groups along with qualifiers such as "of that age group who weren't married, X% was single and X% of those hadn't had sex" so if you have 100 people, 50 of which are married, 25 of which are in relationships then the % of the people who you are talking about being virgins is only 25% of the initial 100, even if 100% of that group are virgins... it's 25 out of 100 people, this is why % isn't the best way of tracking the real figures.

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notice OP has left out some portions of quotes which state this, but in the original articles (which are really not worth the time of reading)

"Many aren’t having sex either. In fact, around 44 per cent of unmarried women and 42 per cent of unmarried men admit they are virgins, according to The 2015 National Fertility Survey, which is a kind of sex and relationship census conducted by the government every five years."

So yeah it's based on 44% of unmarried men which does not mean that nearly half are virgins... even if the survey was 100% correct it would mean that 44% of a certain % are virgins and again.... a large % of the unmarried will be minors.

I mean until their women all look like anime characters, their not getting any mans attention. Hentai almost ruins sex, You want it, but you can't fucking have it and that just makes you sad. Those boys in Japan need Ultra realistic VR sex rooms if we ever want to get em to make children; you gotta trick em into it (not like they know about consent anyways).

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Just.... wow, the bolded just blows me away that a whole culture gets tarred like that by you.

That is so fucked up!

How fucked up is that? Depressing...

But many Japanese women find the gorilla Shabani to be very sexy. That is an indication that Japanese women are all horned up.

I mean.... of course they do.

Just imagine the fantasy of being in his arms.... him... staring into your eyes deeply before having him crush every bone in your body with a single flinch of those bulging muscles before throwing your wheezing dying shattered body against a wall like a piece of fecal matter.... it wets more panties than incontinence!

How did you get in? As a stupid English teacher like everyone else?

That's like the easiest way to get in besides getting a Japanese wife. Try to get in with a real job and you're fucked.

I'm sat here trying to work out if this was deliberate or not :D

Good luck teaching them English! That's that count the parts!

Studies are showing that there is very little chance of this happening... unless you are a sex robot.