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Tulip Mazumdar explores how young people's rejection of intimacy and their embracing of singledom has left Japan's authorities struggling to tackle rapid population decline. Traditionally, the working husband and the stay-at-home housewife defined a Japanese family. Tulip meets the eligible men and women who are choosing careers, fun and freedom over, marriage, boyfriends or girlfriends. Such is their determination to be independent, few want or have time for partners - let alone indulging in sexual relations. First broadcast on Shrinking Population: How Japan Fell Out of Love with Love, 19 September 2016.
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