As Japan undergoes social change, single women are in the firing line
- Written by Laura Dales, Lecturer in Asian Studies, University of Western Australia
An increasing proportion of Japanese adults will remain unmarried their whole lives, and should be considered full citizens rather than underperformers. ShutterstockJapan’s Liberal Democratic Party MP Kato Kanji recently commented that women should have multiple children, and implied that single women were a burden on the state. His comments...