China News Service, June 14. According to Kyodo News, the Japanese government finalized the 2022 version of the "White Paper on Men and Women's Joint Participation in Painting" at a cabinet meeting on the 14th.
The survey in the white paper shows that among single people in their 30s with no history of marriage, 1 in 4 men and women answered that they did not want to marry.
Data map: Local people in Japan wear masks and walk through the streets of Tokyo.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Lv Shaowei
Specifically, regarding the willingness to marry of single people with no history of marriage, 46.4% of men and women in their 30s answered "willing", on the other hand, 26.5% of men and 25.4% of women answered "no will" ("No"). plan" or "not plan if possible").
Among people in their 20s, 19.3% of men and 14.0% of women answered that they had no intention of getting married.
According to the report, when people aged 20 to 39 were asked why they had no active idea of marriage, it was found that the most common answer for both men and women was "I don't want to be bound by marriage, I want to live freely."
In addition, the reason for the obvious gender difference is that women answer "will bear the responsibilities of work, family, childcare, and nursing", "resist or feel troublesome to change their surname", etc., while men answer "have no financial ability, and work is unstable" more.
The survey also found that the number of marriages in Japan in 2021 (preliminary value) is about 514,000, the lowest record since World War II.
The Cabinet Office of Japan conducted the above survey from December 2021 to January 2022, and received responses from a total of 20,000 people aged 20 to 69.
The findings are summarized in the white paper.