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ABC – A game of rock, paper, scissors doesn’t exactly scream romance. But the government in Gifu Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, is willing to try anything. Their marriage and birthrates are at record lows, the population declining fast. Nearly a third of adult residents under the age of 50 are single, a 10 percent drop compared to a decade ago. On a recent Saturday in Kani City, two dozen men and women paired off to play the schoolyard game at a pre-Valentine’s Day matchmaking party organized by the prefecture. The three hour event held at a rose garden also featured separate hour long self-help sessions: makeup and styling lessons for women, dating role play and voice projection exercises for men. “A lot of men don’t know how to make themselves appealing to women,” says organizer Tomoyo Matsuda. “They only know to talk about their jobs and hobbies, but that conversation doesn’t extend beyond the first meeting. We prep them beforehand to make sure it does.” It all amounts to a national crisis for a country with one of the lowest birthrates in the world. Already the oldest nation, more than a quarter of Japanese are over the age of 65. The population is on track to shrink by nearly a third in 50 years.
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cback said:
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nagooyen said:
Japanese men are crazy about sex.. they have hentai. I call BS!
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