Japan's government will play romantic matchmaker in a bid to shore up the birth rate. Experts say it will fail.
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Some sociologists say the approach adopted by Japan's largely older, male leaders ignores the real problem.

read the article the video is not good

  • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Unrelated to the meat of the article, but

    Babies [...] are held by college sumo wrestlers as they compete in a traditional baby screaming contest, known as Naki Sumo,

    is an incredible fucking line. Neat Wiki article on it, too

    • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Sumo wrestlers employ a variety of techniques to encourage crying, including bouncing the baby in their arms, making loud noises and funny or scary facial expressions, and chanting "Naki! Naki! Naki!" ("Cry! Cry! Cry!" in English).[5] In some versions of the festival, when neither baby has cried for a number of minutes, referees or judges donning traditional Japanese masks approach the babies and attempt to scare them.

      Lmao