If you want to imagine a very alien-seeming society, Japan is often a good place to start for a Westerner.

Originally shared by Winchell Chung

Experts say “the flight from human intimacy” in Japan comes from having a highly developed economy and high gender inequality. “There’s a word for married working women: oniyome, or ‘devil wives.'”

At the same time, Japan’s population is shrinking and graying, setting up a “demographic time bomb” that could radiate out globally through the country’s Greece-level national debt and deep economic ties with China and the US.

http://www.techinsider.io/half-of-japanese-people-arent-having-sex-2015-7