What rubbish. The reasons that Japan's birthrate is declining are largely the same reasons that many developed, industrialised nations are declining. This whole blaming of anime and so-called Japanese perversion is a Western form of racism. As a resident of Japan for a decade, I can assure you that the view of Japan as seen from Western geek media is bullshit wish fulfillment for xenophobes eager to maintain a myth that Japan is some sex crazed, robot marrying insane place. Half the 'oh Japan' articles are the misconstruing of humour and satire, or just intentional sillyiness. The rest are incredibly fringe cultures or bizzare individuals made out to be the norm of the culture.
Imagine the picture of America which could be painted using a few South Park clips, Octomum, Jersey Shore, Rebublican debates, the Real Doll, Scientology, most of the Southern States, etc.
THE REAL REASON that Japan's birthrate is declining is rather simple -- Japan has been for a very long time very traditional when it comes to marraige and the woman's role in that arrangement. Children out of wedlock are still quite the taboo, as marraige and children are largely inseperable in the culture. Yet Japan has alarming rates of sexually transmitted disease for a nation of its level simply because men do not like to wear condoms and women are too embarrassed or lack the confidence to tell them to.
The Pill is not widely used in Japan except for cases of medical need, such as being debated for Jesus' sake in the USA right now. Add to this that women in Japan today are finally being ableto get their equality in the workplace, there is a FEAR of marraige and kids, because once a woman is married the societal, parental and even employer expectation that she's get pregnant and thus be demoted or resign is very very very very very high.
Woman aren't prepared to give up their careers and passions and goals for the traditional expectations of marraige and motherhood because the provisions and opportunities available for mothers in Western countries aren't really there. In fact Japanese employees are known to work very late every day and spend a lot of time devoted to work, but ini truth they aren't working in the traditional sense. They are going to work functions, socialising and networking with coworkers and clients, eating and drinking with them too.
How can a woman raise kids and look after a home (because boys in Japan are seldom trained how to do this) AND also keep her work expectations? SO she'll be given a lower position, lower pay, be given lower trust and responsibility, because after all, she is really a baby making machine and a house keeper, and a second mother to her husband.
So this is really why birth rates are declining. The government here KNOWS that the reason is the entirety of Japan's work culture and traditional expectation, so it pretends it to be otherwise and launched ineffective measures.
So fucking cool it with the baseless generalisation about the masculinity of the men, so called Japanese perversion (the Real Doll and the modern dildo are American inventions, btw, and sexual perversion as the West sees it is really a remnant of Christian puritanism). And certainly can it with the 'just send me over there' bullshit. Women don't want to have kids with a foreigner who'll only be able to work as a lowly paid language teacher, or otherwise take them to their home country at which they will be separated from their parents whom they have a duty to look after in old age. Western, post colonial wish fulfillment.
