{"id":39286,"date":"2013-10-21T23:50:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T05:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/japans-got-problems.html"},"modified":"2013-10-21T23:50:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T05:50:32","slug":"japans-got-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/japans-got-problems.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan's got … problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
I try not to be a judgmental person, but if the societal portrait given here is accurate, Japan's got some major social and demographic problems that are going to non-trivial to deal with.<\/div>\n

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Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?<\/a>
\n What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out\u2026 Abigail Haworth investigates\n <\/p>\n

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I try not to be a judgmental person, but if the societal portrait given here is accurate, Japan's got some major social and demographic problems that are going to non-trivial to deal with. Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex? What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? 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