The Japanese are - simply and irretrievably - mentally defective… My God!
Lack of 'romantic ability' blamed by assemblyman for Japan's sliding marriage, birth rates
(Mainichi Japan)
TSU -- The reason for Japanese people's increasing reluctance to get married is that their "romantic ability" is declining, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party faction in the Mie Prefectural Assembly stated here on Feb. 24.
Narise Ishida voiced the theory during a general question and answer session at the assembly, and asked the prefectural government to conduct a survey and analysis of residents' romantic ability.
"The birthrate is not declining because it costs money to have children," Ishida stated. "The problem is that romance has been seen as a taboo subject before marriage." He proposed that the prefectural government incorporate the idea of romantic ability into its measures against the declining birthrate. Ishida did not state specifically what romantic ability is.