This is not the success yet, but surely the right step in the right direction. Suicides in Japan have started to fall below 30,000 figure in 2013. You can find more on: Suicides in Japan fall below 30,000 for 2nd straight year.
I strongly recommend watching a documentary A life in Japan, based on the interviews with long term foreign residents in Japan. You may learn a lot! This documentary is a great source of information about Japan and Japanese people through the eyes of foreigners. It is really worth it!
I highly recommend watching the documentary No sex please. We are Japanese, by Anita Rani from BBC, which offers more insight into the contemporary Japanese sexuality and socio-demographic contributing factors.
This is another commentary about the Japanese and the sex crisis in terms of sexless couples and singles and young Japanese who apparently are not interested in sex. Well, William Pesek is willing to challenge the common motion about sexless Japanese, painting very different picture of contemporary social phenomena in Japan. Please check the article The Lust Beneath Japan’s Sex Drought and
The article provides some interesting and insightful observations why Japan is facing demographic crisis and sexual problems. Check it out: The Japanese men who prefer virtual girlfriends to sex.
I recommend attending an open lecture about Mental Health Care in Japan conducted by Dr. Yuko Kawanishi and her work as a sociologist has focused on cross-cultural mental health issues. She is also a New York State-licensed Master Social Worker, specializing in mental health and psychotherapy. She holds a PhD. in Sociology from UCLA and a Masters in Social Work
This time I want to mention a book The Japan’s Cultural Code Words by Boyé Lafayette De Mente, which enormously helps to understand the Japanese character and cultural communication codes, and is recommended to anyone, who wants to get a deeper insight into the Japanese way of Life. And it reads like a page-turner!
If you are keen on having a bit better understanding of the changes in Japan over the last 20 years, please check the following links to documentary films provided below. 1994 Female Sexuality in Japan by ABC Australia 2009 Tokyo Hostess by The New York Times It as about women’s roles and choices, the mix of traditional and modern trends,
From a cognitive perspective a good advertisement should be put where many people look and women’s legs seem to be a perfect canvas. In Japan a new advertising service allows women to rent out their own legs to advertisers. The article on Nippon News says: “The company is called Absolute Territory PR, (interesting name, isn’t it?) and the number of
Enjoy your Valentine’s Day 2013, and have fun reading an article in The Sydney Morning Herald about Japanese ideas during this special day.