Nearly half of unattached young Japanese are not seeking romantic partners because the effort is “troublesome,” a government survey showed.
According to the Cabinet Office survey, 37.6 percent of the 761 respondents in their 20s and 30s who were not in a relationship said they do not want a romantic partner.
Among them, 46.2 percent cited “troublesome” as the reason, followed by 45.1 percent who said they want to “focus on hobbies.”
The respondents were allowed to cite multiple responses in the survey, which was conducted in December and January.
As for obstacles to finding partners, 55.5 percent cited the “paucity of meeting places,” followed by 34.2 percent who mentioned a “lack of confidence in personal charm.”
The survey was conducted to gauge the feelings of young Japanese toward marriage and starting a family.
The Cabinet Office contacted 7,000 randomly selected men and women in their 20s and 30s nationwide by mail. It received 2,643 valid responses, or 38 percent of the total, through mail or e-mail.
Some of the results, which were released on June 22, were incorporated into the government’s fiscal 2015 white paper on measures to stem the declining birthrate.
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