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Typhoon wrote: The fear of women and the perception that sex is somehow unclean is hardly unique to Islam.

You are right about that.

http://theweek.com/articles/453219/ever ... ion-crisis

The Japanese now have one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, and at the same time, one of the highest longevity rates. As a result, the population is dropping rapidly, and becoming increasingly weighted toward older people. After peaking seven years ago, at 128 million, Japan's population has been falling — and is on a path to decline by about a million people a year. By 2060, the government estimates, there will be just 87 million people in Japan; nearly half of them will be over 65. Without a dramatic change in either the birthrate or its restrictive immigration policies, Japan simply won't have enough workers to support its retirees, and will enter a demographic death spiral. Yet the babies aren't coming.

There clearly is a subset of Japanese youth who have withdrawn from dating. Instead, they focus on online porn and games like Nintendo's Love Plus, in which players conduct a relationship with an anime girlfriend. Hundreds of thousands of young men are known as hikikomori, shut-ins who eschew human contact and spend their days playing video games and reading comics in their parents' homes.
Celibacy, a form of ignorance, is held to be a virtue in many religions.
Not just religions.

The British newspaper The Observer recently caused an international stir by reporting that Japanese youth have lost interest in sex. The sensationalist conclusion was mostly based on a single statistic: a survey that found that 45 percent of women and 25 percent of men ages 16 to 24 said they were not looking to have sex. The article also cited the phrase sekkusu shinai shokogun, or "celibacy syndrome,"

Eve, after all, and by extension, womenkind are held to be responsible from the fall from the Garden of Eden.
By some. Not all.
As is the appeal to authority a.k.a. faith.
Faith is just believing in something. It's not an appeal to authority.
As ill informed now as when you first posted it.
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Mr. Perfect wrote:
Typhoon wrote: The fear of women and the perception that sex is somehow unclean is hardly unique to Islam.

You are right about that.

http://theweek.com/articles/453219/ever ... ion-crisis

The Japanese now have one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, and at the same time, one of the highest longevity rates. As a result, the population is dropping rapidly, and becoming increasingly weighted toward older people. After peaking seven years ago, at 128 million, Japan's population has been falling — and is on a path to decline by about a million people a year. By 2060, the government estimates, there will be just 87 million people in Japan; nearly half of them will be over 65. Without a dramatic change in either the birthrate or its restrictive immigration policies, Japan simply won't have enough workers to support its retirees, and will enter a demographic death spiral. Yet the babies aren't coming.

There clearly is a subset of Japanese youth who have withdrawn from dating. Instead, they focus on online porn and games like Nintendo's Love Plus, in which players conduct a relationship with an anime girlfriend. Hundreds of thousands of young men are known as hikikomori, shut-ins who eschew human contact and spend their days playing video games and reading comics in their parents' homes.
Ah, yes. The usual "Japan is so weird" stuff.

A whopping 1% of the population.

However, hikkomori, while a problem and non-productive, are mostly harmless.
On the other hand,
The United States has the highest prison population (2,220,300 in 2013). It has the second highest documented incarceration rate in the world (698 per 100,000 population in 2013), behind the tiny country, Seychelles, which has the highest rate (899 per 100,000 in 2014). While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners.

1 in 52 adults on parole or probation. 4.7 million supervised.

Source: Wikipedia and BJS
Mr. Perfect wrote:
Celibacy, a form of ignorance, is held to be a virtue in many religions.
Not just religions.

The British newspaper The Observer recently caused an international stir by reporting that Japanese youth have lost interest in sex. The sensationalist conclusion was mostly based on a single statistic: a survey that found that 45 percent of women and 25 percent of men ages 16 to 24 said they were not looking to have sex. The article also cited the phrase sekkusu shinai shokogun, or "celibacy syndrome,"
Sounds like the Observer writer has never been out in Tokyo/Yokohama/Kyoto/Osaka/Any city in Japan on a Saturday night.

Hardly surprising, as I recall reading an article in the WSJ about how expensive it is to visit and stay in Japan.
It was obvious that the writer had never actually been in Japan.

Rather:

Japan is at the forefront of the same problem facing all industrialized societies [including China] which is that the population is becoming an inverted pyramid, top heavy with an aging population.

In some countries, such as the US, this is offset in part by immigration.
Japan, for better or worse, has, so far, chosen not to do so.

The other problem is the lack of jobs stability, especially for the young.
Currently, nearly 40% of workers are some form of contract workers.
This, combined with their relatively low incomes and the serious lack of day care, has had a negative impact on family formation.
Mr. Perfect wrote:
Eve, after all, and by extension, womenkind are held to be responsible from the fall from the Garden of Eden.
By some. Not all.
As is the appeal to authority a.k.a. faith.
Faith is just believing in something. It's not an appeal to authority.
As ill informed now as when you first posted it.
An assertion is worth exactly nada.

On the other hand,

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Russia wins poker game with Japan
over Kuril Islands



The day before he met Abe, Putin tied Abe down in caveats when he signaled in an interview with Bloomberg that “we (Russia) don’t trade in territories”, although Moscow “would like very much to find a solution to this problem” and “some sort of compromise” is possible if only Russia “can reach a similarly high level of trust” with Japan as it has with China.

Putin added, “We’re not talking about some exchange or some sale (of territory), we are talking about finding a solution where neither of the parties would feel defeated or a loser”.

Wise move, for Russia and Japan.

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over 40% still virgins :lol:

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Nearly half of Japanese adults do not start having sex until after they reach 34 years of age . .

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Funny


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FT | BoJ launches new form of policy easing
Bank sets cap on 10-year bond yields and vows to overshoot 2% inflation target
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http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-a ... usly-burnt
A patient's fart during a surgical procedure allegedly sparked a fire which caused her to be seriously burnt, the Tokyo Medical University Hospital in Shinjuku Ward said.

The incident was reported in Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

The fire occurred at the university hospital in Tokyo on April 15. The patient, in her 30s, was undergoing an operation which involved applying a laser to her cervix, the lower part of the uterus.

The laser is believed to have been ignited by the gas she passed. The fire burnt much of her body, including her waist and legs, the report said.
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Gob smacking incompetence on the part of the surgery team and hospital.

As an aside, that is the hospital used as a location for the film Lost in Translation.
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Earth quake and tsunami warning in Japan I hope you are on High Ground CS.

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Tsunami just hit japan

The Fukushima reactor cooling system fails following quick and tsunami

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Doc wrote:Earth quake and tsunami warning in Japan I hope you are on High Ground CS.

VCVPQ7s-XE4
Thank you.

Far enough away that I didn't notice it.
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Heracleum Persicum wrote:.

Tsunami just hit japan

The Fukushima reactor cooling system fails following quick and tsunami

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The world did not end . . . yet again.

Oops.
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http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Fuku ... ble-473851

... almost doubled the estimated cost of compensation for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and decommissioning of the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant to more than 20 trillion yen ($177.51 billion), the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.

crazy

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Heracleum Persicum wrote:.


http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Fuku ... ble-473851

... almost doubled the estimated cost of compensation for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and decommissioning of the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant to more than 20 trillion yen ($177.51 billion), the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.

crazy

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Closing the gate after the horses have bolted, however, what civilization requires are nuclear reactors that such down rather than meltdown in the event of a power failure. Current pressurized light water reactors are completely unsuited for safe power generation.
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$177.51 billion is a few zero's away from a proper stimulus!
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Heracleum Persicum wrote:.


69% of Japanese men and 59% of Japanese women
do not have a romantic partner.



What a trist life


CS, you have the mike

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I think Typhoon prefers Michelles to Mikes.
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Heracleum Persicum wrote:What a trist life
A life of trysts.
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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/16/putin-sa ... rests.html

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"For me the most important thing is to sign a peace deal (with Japan) because that would create the conditions for long-term co-operation," Putin told a news conference in Tokyo after meeting Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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Congratulation, CS

and

Be nice to Vladimiro, be nice

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nothing like a bit of chinese fear to create lasting friendships.
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noddy wrote:.

nothing like a bit of Chinese fear to create lasting friendships.

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Some truth to that

Japan knows America, sooner rather than later, will wash hand and leave

Not so Russia, just next door

and

nobody knows how long Russia/China friendship lasts

So, better, be nice to Vladimiro .. one never knows

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Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Heracleum Persicum wrote:.


69% of Japanese men and 59% of Japanese women
do not have a romantic partner.



What a trist life


CS, you have the mike

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I think Typhoon prefers Michelles to Mikes.
:lol:

Quite.
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falling demand

If mirrored ceilings and vending machines selling sex toys are not their thing, guests can opt for “concept rooms” that re-create everything from the inside of an aircraft to tropical holiday resorts.

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“Tourists are starting to use love hotels because regular hotels are fully booked, or sometimes just because they’ve heard that they are fun places to stay,” an Almex spokesman said.

Rooms that can be rented for a few hours at a time have been around in Japan since the Edo period (1603-1868). The first modern love hotels appeared in the 1960s to cater to couples desperate to escape their extended families, who traditionally lived under one roof, for a few hours of intimacy.

:lol:

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