Chapter 261 The Young Man (Revised)

Masayoshi Kishimoto stepped on top of the grass inside the golf course, and in addition to feeling that his feet were soft and elastic, he also smelled the grass.

He, Kitano Ryuichi, and General Manager Pachinko were walking side by side at the front. Only one, twenty meters away from behind them were the others slowly following.

Meanwhile, Takahashi Kazu would not be idle. Of course he knew that playing golf was just a front, the most important thing was nothing more important than pulling strings.

Himself and Kitano Ryuichi’s secretary, and Pachinko’s General President’s inner circle all exchanged their respective business cards. They chatted about other things as they walked along toward the front.

“Does Kishimoto-kun have a girlfriend yet?” Kitano Ryuichi asked casually in a seemingly lighthearted manner.

“No.” Masayoshi Kishimoto answered directly without even hesitating for a moment. He wasn’t unaware that if he really answered the word “yes” truthfully, then he would be creating a lack of sincerity behind himself.

In case the other party wants to introduce whose daughter or his own daughter to his acquaintance, then the same must go to cope with a bit. To say that it is a distinction between public and private is just to say it.

In East Asia, the culture of interpersonal relations over the centuries has always been based on women, blood, and classmates. The Japanese value the direct line first, followed by the collateral line.

“Young people should not be busy only with their careers. The solution of personal problems belongs to sharing the worries of the country. Japan’s aging and childlessness are gradually becoming apparent.

In twenty years, these seemingly insignificant little problems will become big problems. Japan’s population will continue to decrease year by year.” Kitano Ryuichi said calmly.

“This is indeed a problem. The most significant factor for young people not getting married, not having children, and not falling in love should not be unilaterally reduced to their lack of responsibility, in my opinion.

First, it is most directly due to the lack of money, poor. Second, the average young man in his thirties, monthly salary income in addition to their own expenses, basically very little left.

Even if there is a little money left over, they want to invest in their hobbies. Secondly, things like falling in love feel quite troublesome for many young people. I’m sure the older generation has a hard time understanding this.

Thirdly, young people of my generation have experienced the initial bursting of the economic bubble in Japan in the 1990s, the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, and the Asian financial turmoil in 1997, and have changed their thinking a lot.

Japanese women are becoming more and more realistic, they know more and more what they want and what kind of men they are looking for. According to common sense, Japan is a country where there are many women and few men, and there should not be a problem of many men not being able to find wives.

However, this is a real problem. Japanese women generally look upwards, which creates an imbalance between men and women.

They all want to find the top 10-20% of quality men as boyfriends or husbands. However, quality men are, after all, a very small minority.

This structural imbalance is artificially created, not naturally selected. Upper-middle class men, in turn, are surrounded by too many women, and lower-middle class men, in turn, are surrounded by too few women.

Therefore, in order to alleviate this contradiction in Japan, the government has launched a program to bring in brides from overseas, such as the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and South Korea.

Of course, Japanese women cannot be blamed unilaterally, but are forced by reality. They earn half or even a third of what men earn.

Many of them think that they don’t want to work, and when they get married, they want to be a full-time housewife and raise their children.

For this reason, they are determined to find a man with economic strength, not only can they live easier and more decent, but also can reduce the divorce rate in the marriage. Most of the time, ordinary people get divorced because of money matters.

This part of the women’s initiative to withdraw from the labor market, resulting in Japan’s domestic labor shortage, and had to recruit trainees from a number of foreign developing countries to make up for a related.

Japanese men also feel that Japanese women are becoming more and more materialistic and money-oriented, which further discourages many of them from taking the initiative. It is better to live in their own little world than to fail.

Fourthly, the most fundamental reason is the rigidity of social class promotion. Young people often don’t see hope, and then lose the great motivation to be active.

Japan’s population needs to be maintained at around 100 million people in order to keep this country competitive.” Masayoshi Kishimoto spoke eloquently.

“So that’s what the young people of your generation think.” Kitano Ryuichi and Pachinko Chief were exchanging glances with each other, nodding their heads in unison.

Masayoshi Kishimoto would never have taken the initiative to play golf with the two old men if it wasn’t for the Roppongi’s New Town Renovation Plan project.

Their generation was still living in the golden thirty years of Japan’s rapid economic development. At that time, Japanese people, no matter young people or middle-aged people, were all like chicken blood.

They are very active work, overnight overtime is a common occurrence, overwork that does not exist, on the contrary, is regarded as weak, boasts of the company’s fiercest warriors, completely unlike the latter days of the kind of self-deprecating for the community animal.

So, Japan was able to quickly recover from the ruins of a post-war, not unidirectional Korean War, the Vietnam War and other external favorable factors to Japan’s opportunities, and the main thing is that the people generally have that kind of positive spirit and drive.

Kishimoto justice to know, it is because there is a thing that exists, resulting in Japan in 1970, the population of one hundred million, is to let the Japanese government put forward the bottom of a hundred million middle-class program.

He naturally thought of the Chinese people have that kind of positive fighting spirit and vigor is mainly in the reform and opening up the early eighties and nineties of the southern coastal areas.

The most representative of this is the Wenzhou people. At that time, it was very popular to say, “You can’t blame the government for your hard life, and you can’t blame society for your back.

The eight-hour workday was formulated for those who had no motivation. It was this group of people who suffered the unprecedented pain of being laid off in 1998.

For those who are motivated, they work more than ten hours a day and do not rest on weekends. Even just three or five hours of sleep a day would be totally sufficient.

Overwork, as usual, is completely non-existent in mainland China at this time. They can’t wait to have forty-eight hours a day.

That kind of vitality was the summary that Masayoshi Kishimoto had obtained from the lecturers’ mouths, materials, and documentaries when he was studying at the university in his previous life.