{"id":23253,"date":"2016-07-28T19:43:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T19:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/If-you-want-to-imagine-a-very-alien-seeming-society-Japan-is-often-a-good-place-to-start-for-a-Westerner"},"modified":"2016-07-28T19:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T19:43:24","slug":"if-you-want-to-imagine-a-very-alien-seeming-society-japan-is-often-a-good-place-to-start-for-a-westerner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/07\/28\/if-you-want-to-imagine-a-very-alien-seeming-society-japan-is-often-a-good-place-to-start-for-a-westerner\/","title":{"rendered":"If you want to imagine a very alien-seeming society, Japan is often a good place to start for a Westerner."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to imagine a very alien-seeming society, Japan is often a good place to start for a Westerner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally shared by Winchell Chung<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experts say &#8220;the flight from human intimacy&#8221; in Japan comes from having a highly developed economy and high gender inequality.  &#8220;There&#8217;s a word for married working women: oniyome, or &#8216;devil wives.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, Japan&#8217;s population is shrinking and graying, setting up a &#8220;demographic time bomb&#8221; that could radiate out globally through the country&#8217;s Greece-level national debt and deep economic ties with China and the US.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/half-of-japanese-people-arent-having-sex-2015-7\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/half-of-japanese-people-arent-having-sex-2015-7<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        If you want to imagine a very alien-seeming society, Japan is often a good place to start for a Westerner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-23253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sff-thought-starters","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}