On Fri, 30 Dec, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> "Demographic Trends and Their Implications for Japan's Future," 7
> March 1997, <http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/japan/socsec/ogawa.html>
>
> A very interesting story.
This whole article is fascinating and enjoyable. Thanks for posting the link.
> I hope that Japanese women will continue to stick to the birth strike
The paragraph after the section you cite makes it sound like it isn't so much a birth strike as a strike against having sex period:
<quote>
And I am a bit worried about Japanese women because arranged marriages
are gone; the marriage market is free, but according to my data in
Japan 45% of single girls are not dating. I mean this figure has been
stable since the beginning of the 1990s.
<unquote>
That's pretty stunning. Sounds like a job for the internet :o)
Michael