https://archive.is/Ke0JI

From the article:

Experts say "the flight from human intimacy" in Japan comes from having a highly developed economy and high gender inequality. (According to the World Economic Forum, Japan ranks 104 out of 140 countries regarding gender equality, slotted between Armenia and the Maldives).

"Professional women are stuck in the middle of that contradiction," Fisher writes. "It's not just that day-care programs are scarce: Women who become pregnant or even just marry are so expected to quit work that they can come under enormous social pressure to do so and often find that career advancement becomes impossible. There's a word for married working women: oniyome, or 'devil wives.'"

Of course this doesn't explain why men are largely uninterested in relationships (moreso than women by the way).

And then of course one such lovely comment said that it's men's porn addiction that makes them uninterested.

Bizarre.