{"id":13142,"date":"2008-07-25T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13142"},"modified":"2008-07-25T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T14:57:12","slug":"japanese-villages-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/japanese-villages-disappearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Villages Disappearing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not science fiction.  UK newspaper The Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/asia\/article4375248.ece\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that 62,000 communities throughout Japan are in danger of becoming extinct because their populations are mostly or entirely elderly citizens.  As a result of Japan&#8217;s low birth rate (a majority of contemporary Japanese women are uninterested in motherhood, and according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/The-Champs-of-the-Sex-80445.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">2007-2008 Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey<\/a>, Japan has the world&#8217;s lowest rate of sexual activity) and young Japanese citizens migrating to metropolitan areas, small towns and villages in rural Japan are literally dying because they have no young residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not science fiction. UK newspaper The Times reports that 62,000 communities throughout Japan are in danger of becoming extinct because their populations are mostly or entirely elderly citizens. As a result of Japan&#8217;s low birth rate (a majority of contemporary Japanese women are uninterested in motherhood, and according to the 2007-2008 Durex Sexual Wellbeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}