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Answerman - Do Arranged Marriages Still Happen In Japan?

Actually, nature has taught us that there are quite a few species that haven't evolved in any significant way since before the dinosaurs walked the earth.
If an adaptation is good enough for a given environment, the species won't evolve until the environment changes. If it's good for several environments, it might not evolve period.

Hey, i also noticed on how manga and anime have a number of references to Japan's declining birth rates as well, there are number of references about Japanese people encouraging them to get married and have children, a number of references about this include Final Approach, Conception and its sequel, and more.

Japan's declining population and declining birth rates is making its pop cultural references in the number of Japanese media out there.

Man, Japan is sure is in desperation to survive too.

@ReifuTD

Yeah i know that. But the declining workforce will hurt the anime, manga, video games and other entertainment industry for good. Japan will disappear if Japan's birthrate continues to drop.

There are several Arabic countries that have very low limits on refugees as well and that is true for the vast majority of countries on the planet.

I would expect that the Japanese will decide what is best for Japan.

There is one thing about this immigration thing that I do not get.
OK so a Chinese person is not Japanese, however they are both oriental, or east Asian(which ever is right). So what difference does it make to their country?

Take for example South Africa, the Boers, Dutch settles are not Black they are white, so that makes a difference, but if someone from Zimbabwe moves other, it doesn't really make any difference. The Chinese who come other, how will you tell the difference between their kids and the kids of Japanese parents?

As far as the declining interest in marriage/kids/etc. goes, I'm sure that ease of access to other outlets is an easy scapegoat, but I think that bit about the long work hours and not much support for parents is a bigger factor. If you're exhausted from a long work day and have to turn around and do it again, it's pretty easy to not see how dating or kids would be manageable on top of it.

I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here, but i hope it 's not that all immigrants "have five kids and don't work"...as for Japan, women there are still more or less forced to stop working as soon as they have kids which actually is one of the reasons for the declining birthrates.

In fact, Japan's average work hours per year are pretty average. Maybe it doesn't take into account unpaid overtime and "loyalty" after hours, but this is also is more rare nowadays as the Shūshin-Koyō lifetime employment system fades away.

As for support for parents, child care is a booming business in major Japanese cities, and while it helps, at what cost? With all do respect to the men and women taking care of children while parents both work, it's not a healthy upbringing. I've seen it myself with the DINK boom and many millennials.

People are quick to point to this as well. Japan actually has mandatory maternal AND paternal leave for up to a year to the extent it's so generous, no wonder employers want to let go of people having children when they can easily be replaced.

Japan has one of the most generous paternity-leave policies among developed countries, but a look around the average Japanese office might not seem that way. Only about 2% to 3% of men in Japan take their allotted parental leave

According to a recent study by researchers at Kyushu University published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychology, peer pressure—or rather the perception of it—plays a big role in deterring Japanese men from taking time off after having a child.

One reason that might still hold sway, the researchers contend, is that many men still believe they could suffer from negative evaluations in the workplace if they take paternity leave (though Japanese law prevents unfair treatment of employees who take parental leave).

The current attitude of Japanese men toward paternity leave is neatly summarized by the researchers as: “I want to but I won’t.”

A survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on workplace maternity harassment, or "matahara," as it is called in Japanese, shows that 21.8% of full-time employees and 48.7% of temp staff have experienced such harassment.

Of those who experienced "matahara," 47% were told they were annoying for making their co-workers do extra work or asked why they didn't quit. Twenty percent lost their jobs.

About 40% of respondents said the harassment came from their male superiors, 20% said they were harassed by female superiors, while the rest cited co-workers, the ministry said.

One woman told NHK that having a baby should be a joyous occasion but she was so tense about going to work each day because of harassment that she feared she would have a miscarriage, so she quit her job.

More Japanese women are continuing to work after having children, as a downtrend in wages since the late 1990s has made life harder for single-income families. As of 2010, 46% of working women stayed in their jobs after having their first child, up from 32% in 2001, according to the labor ministry.

At the same time, complaints about harassment and discrimination related to pregnancy and childbirth have risen. In fiscal year to March 31, the government received 2,085 such complaints from female workers, up 18% from six years ago.

Lawyers say contract workers often fear their employment will not be renewed if they take maternity or childcare leave.

Lol there is so much that is wrong with your post but you are probably just curious out of pure ignorance than malice but you probably offended a some or maybe a lot of Asian people from that particular region. As outsiders looking in it probably looks the way you perceived it in your post but to Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and the rest of the ethnicities from that region they’re big differences in not only language but culture and attitudes and even physical differences to an extent.

Outside of all that I mentioned it will do you a lot of good to do some research on the history of these peoples and their interactions over time and you will see why everyone doesn’t sit in a circle and sing happy songs. Also being a person from East Africa they’re obvious physical differences between Africans from North, South, and West Africa that a native like I can notice that outsiders won’t see without pointing it out. So like I said do some research. You probably have access to the internet which is a fountain of useful information if you know where to look. Start with wiki, it isn’t a bad place as they tend to list credible sources along with information.

There is one thing about this immigration thing that I do not get.
OK so a Chinese person is not Japanese, however they are both oriental, or east Asian(which ever is right). So what difference does it make to their country?

Take for example South Africa, the Boers, Dutch settles are not Black they are white, so that makes a difference, but if someone from Zimbabwe moves other, it doesn't really make any difference. The Chinese who come other, how will you tell the difference between their kids and the kids of Japanese parents?

When you marry with someone from outside your culture, there's risk of your kids losing part of your culture be it language or belief. It may not disappear immediately but if it keeps going, your descendants will lose it completely someday.

Look at the Ainu. Japanisation made them near extinct. Ainu descent exist, but many of them lost the ability to speak the language or practice the tradition. Currently the Japanese are still the majority, but as the population dwindle and more people marrying foreigner, sooner or later they'll become minority before eventually disappear.

Mrs. Ichinose, IIRC, showing some possibilities for Kyoko--

I've been wondering if there would be a push to have anime more focused on dating, marriage and having children.

Usually at most we have some silly haram anime where some man accidently forced to get engaged to some woman but he wants another woman but has trouble asking her out on a date and the marriage never happens then over time all these girl shows up and try to beat him up and the guy never gets laid.

WARNING This show is degenerate normie propaganda intended to destroy otaku culture (...) Everything about this anime is secretly part of a government conspiracy lead by Shinzo Abe the Prime Minister of glorious Nippon, to eradicate otaku and raise the birthrate of the country.

Don't believe me?

Almost every joke is about the female body, trying to shatter the unrealistic standards of 2D females and open the viewers minds to realize that real women aren't so bad. Gyaru in real life are easy lays so by making the main character a nice pure girl it tricks the otaku into thinking that 3DPD ["3D pig disgusting"] gyaru are fine too, thus creating more children to save Japan from extinction. They even have some thick ass girl show up later on in the show to get you to open your interests from the generic slim body image, she is pretty hot though. (...)

Overall I think this anime is dangerous and should be watched with the knowledge that it is trying to destroy a lifestyle.

Y'think growing up in a culture where you're categorically a misfit from birth might contribute to any actual behavior problems?

Then a westerner jumped in and said that only melting-pot nations should be expected to provide a welcoming place for mixed-ethnicity couples to live and raise a family, while all other nations' ideals of purity should be respected and preserved.