"It's not a problem of matchmaking, it's an issue of more men with unstable incomes," the professor told CBS News. "Even among regular workers, relative incomes are falling, so it's better (for singles) to keep living with their parents" than get married.

Yamada lambasted the government for programs that he says primarily benefit Japan's well-educated elite. In 2021, a fifth of men and over half of women were in part-time, freelance or other non-regular jobs.

Harvard's Brinton said the plight of non-regular male workers is another reason Japan should adopt an egalitarian, dual-earner, dual-carer norm.

That's a band aid when they will slash wages even more on everyone to the point where you have the situation in South Korea and emerging in the United States where having a family is prohibitively expensive. We are seeing more artlcles here about how the young are disinterested in marraige or having a family because they just can't afford it and their economic outlook is increasingly bleek. :doomjak:

Obviously the solution is for Japan to spend billions upon billions on US weapons to act as a proxy tool instead of boosting wages.