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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by Veratyr on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:39PM (#15664701)
Personally, it's the "Her mother is a lazy, dishonest bitch who bought a fake father rather than finding a real one for her daughter." part of the comment. It's very strong language that I don't think is deserved and it makes it sound like finding a new father would be easy.

There's a well documented reason why there are a lot of single men in Japan.

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by echion on Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:15PM (#15665023)
> There's a well documented reason why there are a lot of single men in Japan.

What is that reason? (Serious question)

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by Veratyr on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:26PM (#15665602)
Young people in Japan aren't interested in relationships: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-j...

The reasons behind _that_ aren't so well understood but generally seem to be disillusionment with the idea of falling in love, getting married and having a family, unwillingness to fit in with traditional expectations (housewife taking care of the kids + hard working salaryman husband) or simply seeing relationships as too hard.

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