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TOKYO – The statistics do not augur well for Japan’s ageing population: A survey of young Japanese aged 18 to 34 has found that almost 70 per cent of unmarried men and 60 per cent of unmarried women are not in a relationship.
And around 42 per cent of the men and 44.2 per cent of the women admit they are virgins, The Japan Times reported yesterday .
The study, released on Thursday, shows a particularly sharp increase of singles for people in their late 20s, compared with the previous study in 2010.
In the 2010 edition, the proportion of unmarried men and women who said they had no partner stood at 48.6 per cent and 39.5 per cent, respectively, reported The Japan Times.
The latest survey also shows that the sexes are growing apart. There are now many more virgins than in 2010, when only 36.2 per cent of men and 38.7 per cent of women said they had never had sex.
And while nearly 90 per cent of the respondents want to get married “some time in the future”, 30 per cent of the men sampled and 26 per cent of the female respondents say they are not currently looking for a relationship.
“They want to tie the knot eventually. But they tend to put it off as they have gaps between their ideals and the reality,” Mr Futoshi Ishii, head of the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research’s population dynamics research department, was cited by the Japan Times as saying. “That’s why people marry later or stay single for life, contributing to the nation’s low birthrate.”
The institute has conducted the same survey every five years since 1987. The latest was done in June last year and covered 8,754 single people and 6,598 married couples across the country.
Boosting the birthrate is one of the goals of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration, which has declared it will raise the fertility rate from the current 1.4 to 1.8 by 2025, The Japan Times noted. The government hopes to achieve this by making it easier for families to raise children, such as by increasing the places available at nursery schools.
The survey suggests it may also have to find a way to play Cupid, the report said.
This article was first published on September 18, 2016.
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Go-Ahead Singapore commenced operations on Sunday (Sep 18) of the remaining 11 of 24 existing public bus services under the Loyang Bus Package.
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An Iranian Paralympic cyclist died Saturday after an accident in the road race on the penultimate day of the Rio Games, a Paralympic official said.
Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48, fell during the event and died of his injuries despite an attempt to take him to hospital for treatment, officials said.
“He unfortunately passed away,” International Paralympic Committee (IPC) spokesman Craig Spence told AFP.
Golbarnezhad’s accident occurred during the more than two-hour C4-5 road race for athletes with varying disabilities but still able to bicycle.
He was in the first section of a mountainous descent when he fell.
“The athlete received treatment at the scene and was in the process of being taken to the athlete hospital when he suffered a cardiac arrest,” the IPC said in a statement.
“The ambulance then diverted to the nearby Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he passed away soon after arrival.” Iranian Paralympic officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The British Paralympic team tweeted: “We are devastated by the news of Bahman Golbarnezhad’s passing. Our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues from NPC Iran.”
Blood and guts fantasy epic “Game of Thrones” is tipped to triumph on Sunday as the most successful show ever at the coveted Emmy Awards, television’s equivalent of the Oscars.
The HBO series already has nine statuettes from last weekend’s Creative Arts Emmys, which mainly reward behind-the-scenes personnel, giving it a total haul over the years of 35 – more than any other drama series.
When Emmys in top categories are handed out at a glitzy evening ceremony in downtown Los Angeles, experts predict the show will pass the 37 won by long-running sitcom “Frasier.” HBO’s saga about noble families vying for control of the Iron Throne is the odds-on favorite in the coveted best drama category according to Gold Derby, a website pooling experts’ awards predictions.
It is also ahead in the supporting actor, supporting actress and directing categories, and is running a close second in drama writing behind cyber-security thriller “Mr Robot.” If the prize-giving goes as expected, “Game of Thrones” would be the most-awarded narrative series since the first Television Academy prize-giving in 1949.
“I think ‘Game of Thrones’ will be a big winner on Emmy night,” Debra Birnbaum, executive editor for TV at entertainment industry magazine Variety, told AFP.
“With all the nominations it has in those five categories, it’s going to take home at least three trophies, and break the record.” The all-time Emmy list of winners – which includes non-fiction – is topped by NBC comedy sketch show “Saturday Night Live,” with 44 awards.
FX’s hotly-tipped “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” has 13 nominations – more than any other show – in multiple categories on Sunday, having already won four technical Emmys.
Its victory for best limited series is seen as the surest thing of the night while Sarah Paulson and Courtney B. Vance are expected to be rewarded for their acclaimed portrayals of sparring attorneys Marcia Clark and Johnnie Cochran.
Sterling K. Brown is odds on for his supporting actor role while Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszeski lead a writing category in which three of the six episodes nominated are from “The People v. O.J. Simpson.” “We gave the script to a few people. Our producing partners and the studio were responding really positively so we said, ‘Oh that’s cool,'” Alexander told AFP.
“But you never know if something is going to be a hit. Anyone who says that is a liar.” FX’s acclaimed spy drama “The Americans” could pull some surprises at Sunday’s ceremony, hosted by funnyman Jimmy Kimmel, with Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell seen as popular outside bets for best actor and actress in a drama.
Russell is running third in the betting for tightest race of the night, with Robin Wright (“House of Cards”) expected to just about pip last year’s victor Viola Davis (“How to Get Away with Murder”).
“There is almost as much drama in the race for best drama actor,” said Gold Derby editor Tom O’Neil.
“Like Robin Wright, her co-star Kevin Spacey has never won an Emmy, but now he has decent odds to break through – 7/2. However, ‘Mr. Robot’ star Rami Malek leads with 8/11 odds.” In the battle of the networks, perennial favorite HBO leads the nominations, though with a reduced tally from last year.
But the biggest early success story has been Fox’s FX subsidiary, which got 56 nominations, a new record for a basic cable company.
ABC’s four-hour telecast begins with “Countdown to the Emmy Awards: Red Carpet Live” at 4:00 pm (2300 GMT), with the ceremony due to begin about an hour later.
Agricultural loss caused by Typhoon Meranti on Taiwan have been estimated at nearly NT$800 million (S$34 million), a report said Saturday.
Meanwhile, the Air Force apologised for failing to provide meals to its servicemen dispatched to a village in the mountains of Hualien to help with prevention work against typhoon-triggered disasters last week.
Meranti, which ravaged Southern Taiwan on Tuesday, damaged over NT$460 million worth of crops in Kaohsiung alone, the United Evening News reported, citing the city’s Agriculture Bureau.
The city’s guava farms sustained heavy damage, with losses estimated at more than NT$200 million, the bureau said, adding that jujube farms were hit with losses estimated at over NT$90 million.
In Pingtung, aquaculture farms were also hit hard by Meranti. In some cases, power outages caused failures to life-support systems for grouper ponds, resulting in losses of more than NT$14 million from fish deaths, according to Fisheries Agency Deputy Director-General Haung Hung-yan.
But Huang said power supply to the Pingtung grouper farms had been more than 80 per cent restored.
Huang also said work was continuing at Taitung’s Fugang Fishing Port to clear the area of driftwood washed down from the mountains.
Hungry Servicemen
The United Evening News reported that servicemen of Wing 401 complained after their Air Force unit failed to send them meals while they were working at Wenlan Village in the mountains of Hualien to help with disaster prevention efforts last week, during which two typhoons hit Taiwan.
The servicemen said their superiors had them ask the village chief for food, upon which they were given rice and canned food only, according to local media.
“For the failure to send meals, which resulted in complaints from the servicemen, the Air Force Command Headquarters apologises,” the Air Force said in a press statement issued in response to the report.
The Air Force added that it had instructed all of its disaster prevention units to take good care of its members.
Before the Air Force released the press statement, Defence Minister Feng Shih-kuan gave what was regarded as a confusing response to the Air Force servicemen’s meal complaints.
Asked for comment on the Air Force case, the minister said he had personally checked the meal boxes prepared for Army servicemen sent to do disaster prevention work in Southern Taiwan.
Feng said he found that the meals were “better” than the ones usually sold in restaurants and the one given him.
Sebastian Vettel’s hopes of repeating last year’s win in Singapore were dashed by his own team in the first round on Saturday.
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Former Formula One driver Alex Yoong says: “The world probably isn’t very kind to those at the back.”
With a string of disqualifications and race retirements to his name, Yoong is not likely to be remembered as a racing…
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The spunky eight-year-old has already mastered the bicycle and wanted to challenge himself.
Yesterday, Sparsh Agrawal, a pupil at Greendale Primary School, tried an electric unicycle which was put on display by Wheelers on…
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