One, a new report detailing how young Japanese aren’t having much sex. Yet all three are part of the same narrative: the worrisome demographic trajectory of a highly indebted nation run by graybeards too often unequal to the challenge. The question of why young Japanese in the prime of their lives supposedly aren’t hooking up emerges like clockwork every several months. The reason Singapore-based investor Jim Rogers avoids Japanese debt is a mismatch posing repayment questions. Nor will magical thinking prod young Japanese to date more, marry earlier and have more kids.

Source: Forbes April 12, 2019 09:11 UTC