No Sex Please, We’re Japanese
In a world where people panic about the rising global population, Japan is facing a very different future which could see their population shrink by a third in
just 40 years. One reason is that the Japanese are not having enough
babies and the causes of that form the basis of Anita Rani’s intriguing
journey.
Part of a season of programmes on population for This World, No Sex
Please, We’re Japanese explores Otaku culture – the world of nerds and
geeks obsessed with computer games and Manga cartoons – which has led to
a withdrawal of many Japanese men from the whole dating game. Anita
meets two men in their late thirties who have in depth relationships
with virtual teenage girlfriends as part of a role playing game: ‘I
think twice about going out with a 3D woman’, says one.
The Japanese have far less sex than other nations and Anita also
meets the women who struggle to work and have children in a society
still dominated by traditional gender roles. Added to this, Japan also
has the oldest population in the world, 25% are over 65 and 50,000 over a
hundred years old. Anita visits a group of pensioners cheerleaders and a
prison with a wing especially designed for pensioners.
Too few young people to pay tax, too many old people needing support –
it has all led to a debt problem worse than that of Greece and an
uncertain future for a country that still is the third largest economy
in the world.
Young Sex For Sale In Japan
(Stacey Dooley Investigates Young Sex For Sale In Japan (2017))
Japan is seen to have a serious problem with the sexualisation of children. From bars where men pay to meet schoolgirls to suggestive pictures of very young children and comic books featuring child rape, the country has faced global criticism for its attitudes. It was only three years ago that possessing genuine child pornography was finally made illegal.
Stacey Dooley, one of BBC Three’s most popular documentary-makers fronts another powerful, hard-hitting investigation when she travels to Tokyo, Japan to look into what effect the law banning child porn has had and to see if the attitude towards the sexualisation of children has changed.
Stacey discovers a culture where sexual images of young girls are widespread and used for commercial gain. Her first stop is a legal Tokyo JK café in which high-school aged girls are paid to provide company to older men – who tell her that it is perfectly normal to talk about sex and hold hands with girls as young as 15 dressed in school uniform.
Stacey uncovers an even more disturbing legal grey area exists in Japan called Chako Ero where children as young as six are filmed or photographed in erotic clothing. She speaks to a producer of these films as well as a self-confessed paedophile to try and discover just why some Japanese culture seems to encourage inappropriate exploitation and sexualisation of children.
Following the law change, the documentary examines what else Japan is doing to stop normalising the sexualisation of children. Stacey meets volunteers from a charity trying to help vulnerable girls, as well as the Head of the Juvenile Section at the National Police to find what they are doing to protect young girls. Despite their efforts it seems that Japan, one of the richest countries in the world, is light years behind in its attitude to children compared to other G7 countries
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