This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Dutch with my colleague and friend Gordon Chang, and

we're very pleased to go to Japan. And welcome Yoko Ishi, blogger known as Random Yoko,

to comment on a startling new headline from Japan Kyoto News. Half of unmarried people

under 30 in Japan do not want children. Yoko, a very good even to thank you for this.

These are young people born in the 21st and at the end of the 20th century. What is the

explanation for not wanting children? After all, the reason they're here not wanting children

is that somebody wanted them. How does this happen? Good evening to you. Good evening,

John. Thank you so much for having me back on your amazing show. So there are many layers to

this problem. However, I believe that the biggest problem of this is actually economy. The economy

is bad and people say when they're interviewed by the media, like the TV or the newspaper, they say

that they can't afford to have children. And also they're very anxious about their future.

They have no idea what's going to happen to our society in the near future. And so they don't

want to risk it to have children. And not only children, but they don't want to get married.

And so the more people are getting married later than before. And also there's this interesting

poll about married people. For example, the lifetime I'm married rate in Japan. This is a poll from

2020. And those who have never been married until 50 years old, it's for males, it's 28% and females

17%. And Japan is not like Western countries, especially like Europe. And so people usually have

children when they're married. So if like 28% male and 70% female are not married, then they're not

going to have children. So of course, like, first of all, like we are not getting married. So that's

a huge problem I see. And in the past, Japanese people would just get married when we turn adults.

But today, we are less of that culture. And so like our cultural values have shifted. And it's more

diverse, just like Western developed countries. And also marriage is romanticized. Like back in a day,

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