{"id":48484,"date":"2022-09-14T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T03:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/record-number-of-young-people-in-japan-rejecting-marriage-survey-shows"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T03:12:21","slug":"record-number-of-young-people-in-japan-rejecting-marriage-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48484","title":{"rendered":"Record number of young people in Japan rejecting marriage, survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in people aged 18-24 who don\u2019t intend to marry has consequences for Japan\u2019s low birth rate and depopulation concerns<\/p>\n<p>A record proportion of men and women in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> say they do not intend to marry, a trend experts have warned will undermine efforts to address the country\u2019s population crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The National Institute of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/population\">Population<\/a> and Social Security \u2013 a government-affiliated body in Tokyo \u2013 said the results of its 2021 survey, published this month, would add to concerns about the low birth rate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/14\/record-number-of-young-people-in-japan-rejecting-marriage-survey-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in people aged 18-24 who don\u2019t intend to marry has consequences for Japan\u2019s low birth rate and depopulation concernsA record proportion of men and women in Japan say they do not intend to marry, a trend experts have warned will undermine efforts t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,76,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-marriage","category-population"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48494,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48484\/revisions\/48494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}