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2011-11-28 08:57:09
By Roland Buerk BBC News, Tokyo
Record numbers of young Japanese do not have boyfriends or girlfriends, and
many do not want one, according to a survey by the country's government.
Sixty-one percent of unmarried men aged 18 and 34 do not have a partner, nor do
half of unmarried women the same age.
The numbers have increased since the previous survey in 2005.
Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world - and its population is on
course to shrink dramatically by the middle of the century.
So every five years the government carries out a detailed survey of attitudes
to sex and marriage.
The latest found that 61% of unmarried men aged 18 to 34 have no girlfriend,
and half of women the same age have no boyfriend - a record high.
More than a quarter of the men and 23% of the women said they were not even
looking.
Some cited a shortage of money, others a belief that it is impossible to find a
good partner once they had passed the age of 25.
Many of the women also said single life suited them better than how they
imagined marriage would be.
The survey also found that more than quarter of unmarried men and women between
35 and 39 years old said they had never had sex.