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Proposal To Ban Women From Marrying Over 25 And Having Uterus Removed At 30 Sparks Outrage
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Proposal To Ban Women From Marrying Over 25 And Having Uterus Removed At 30 Sparks Outrage

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The leader of Japan’s Conservative Party apologized after suggesting that women be banned from marrying after age 25 and required to have their uteruses removed at 30. These measures were proposed as part of a strategy to tackle the country’s declining birth rate.

Naoki Hyakuta advocated for the controversial policies in a video posted to his YouTube channel on November 8.

In addition to proposing forced hysterectomies (uterus removal procedures) at 30 and a marriage ban for women over 25,  the minister suggested prohibiting women from attending college after the age of 18, aiming to encourage them to focus on dating and having children.

Highlights
  • Naoki Hyakuta apologized after suggesting a ban for women marrying over the age of 25.
  • Hyakuta suggested uterus removal at 30 as a "now or never" measure to boost birth rates, sparking outrage.
  • Critics condemned Hyakuta's plans as violent, misogynistic measures.

Naoki Hyakuta, the leader of Japan’s Conservative Party, proposed a ban on marriage for women over 25 and a policy to have their uteruses removed at 30

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The “now or never” measures were conceived to promote marriage and reproduction in light of Japan’s aging population and falling birth rate.

In the first half of 2024, the country’s birth rate dropped to its lowest level since 1969, according to official data from its health ministry.

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Hyakuta’s remarks drew harsh criticism across Japanese society, including from members of his own party. Joint Chairperson Takashi Kawamura condemned Hyakuta’s proposal in an interview with Fuji Television, where he revealed that he had asked the politician to retract his comments.

“I apologize on his behalf to the supporters of the Conservative Party and to the Japanese people,” Kawamura said.

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Moreover, the drastic measures sparked a backlash from members of the entertainment industry. Actor Chizuru Higashi raised concerns about Hyakuta’s plans to govern over women’s bodies, saying, “The idea of taking away reproductive ability if you have not had a child by the age of 30 is terrifying, even as a joke,” as per South China Morning Post.

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“Besides, do you think that the declining birth rate is the fault of women? Women cannot get pregnant on their own and they have no confidence about giving birth and raising children because their employment and income are not stable,” Higash added.

Actress Tomoko Mariya said the party was “out of control,” and that Hyakuta showed a deep “lack of awareness,” as per CHMP.

Hyakuta suggested the drastic measures as a strategy to tackle the country’s declining birth rate


Meanwhile, Sumie Kawakami, a lecturer at Yamanashi Gakuin University and author of a book on gender issues, described the politician’s comments as a “call to violence against women.”

“I cannot believe that a Japanese politician has said such a thing,” she told This Week in Asia.

Kawakami expressed concern about political discourse becoming increasingly extreme, warning of the possibility that Japanese politicians might rely on fake news to advance their agendas. Expressing that fewer Japanese women were willing to speak out against misogyny compared to Western countries, she said that “a weaker response will just serve as an incentive to the chauvinists.”

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Hyakuta apologized for his comments during a speech in Nagoya, the fourth most populous city in Japan, on Sunday (November 10).

“I will retract them and apologize as there were people who found them unpleasant,” he said, claiming that the measures were only “a hypothetical idea” not intended to be interpreted as a real plan.

He mentioned that the proposal was presented as a “science-fiction storyline” to start conversations about the country’s declining birth rate.

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But the criticism persisted, with science-fiction writer Issui Ogawa criticizing the conservative leader for downplaying the issue by presenting it as a book or movie plot.

“I’m a science fiction writer and I’m not amused that the grotesque idea of removing a girl’s uterus was described as science fiction, while I’m also unhappy at the idea of forcing her to marry and give birth – with penalties attached,” he said.

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Additionally, the politician suggested prohibiting women from attending college after the age of 18 so they could focus on dating and having kids

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Author Kawakami didn’t think the minister’s apology was genuine. “He (Hyakuta) has said something and now there has been a strong reaction, he has withdrawn it and apologized. But if there had not been a response then he would not have felt the need to claim he was only speaking hypothetically and to apologize.”

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On X (formerly known as Twitter), the politician admitted that his remarks had been “too harsh,” and said that he had no intention to implement the measures.

If the trend of declining fertility rates—the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime—is not reversed, the Japanese government expects the population to drop below 100 million by 2053.

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The country’s low fertility rate reflects the decline in marriage rates. The number of marriages in Japan fell nearly 6% in 2023 from the previous year, dipping below 500,000 for the first time in 90 years, CNN reported.

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Cultural factors also play a role, says James Raymo, professor of sociology and demography at Princeton University. Japan remains a highly patriarchal society, where married men are often expected to work, while women take on the caregiver role. As a result, many women are ambivalent about marriage, choosing instead to enter the workforce and pursue a career.

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According to a 2017 study, 60% of Japanese women said they were too tired from working to consider dating and getting married.

Declining birth rates lead to an aging population, with younger generations being forced to work to support the elderly. In turn, this responsibility leaves them with less time to date and have children, perpetuating the cycle.

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Hyakuta apologized for his comments, admitting the measures were “too harsh”

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This trend directly impacts the economy: Japanese industries are feeling labor shortages, with fewer adults entering the workforce. A shrinking workforce also strains the country’s pension and healthcare systems.

While Hyakuta’s drastic measures are unlikely to be implemented, the government has introduced other initiatives in recent years to encourage childbirth.

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For instance, the Child Care and Family Care Leave Law, which took effect in 2010, gives parents one year of leave after they have a baby and limits the number of hours employers can demand of new parents.

The government covers 80% of the cost of fertility treatments to expand the age range of parenthood. Many cities have organized speed dating events for konkatsu, or marriage hunting. Some towns, like the agricultural Nagi in western Japan, are even paying couples to have children.

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People condemned the politician’s comments, emphasizing the fact that the measures unfairly targeted women

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Ash
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Frankly, I'd be happy if they would have just LET me get a hysterectomy when I ASKED for one ten years ago!!! sheesh.

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Ash
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"We need more women to have babies! We need a solution to this problem! ... Hey, how about we remove their uteruses? THAT will raise the birthrate!" Uh............. I don't know how to tell you this..............

Cathy Roberts
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Huh. Apparently, it's not just here in the US where conservative men are overly invested in women's reproductive rights. Whodathunk.

Guess Undheit
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Japan's population is already in decline. They sell more adult diapers to old people than diapers to babies. China, Russia, Taiwan, and several other countries are on the same path, governments refusing to address the issue of low wages and thieves in the housing market.

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Rocket Surgeon
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about we just stop treating half the population like breeding stock?

Enlee Jones
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women aren't people to them. We're just breeding cows, servants and sex toys.

Deborah B
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, forcibly sterilising women is suposed to *increase* the birthrate? No college for women means low-paying jobs, which means they aren't financially stable enough to afford children.

tori Ohno
Community Member
7 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sooo, you want more children to be born, but you want to sterilize perfectly fertile women? Women who are at a point in their careers that they can, maybe, finally afford to have one? Tell us your real concern here. Like, destroying women and their futures, taking their education away, making them unable to survive, removing them from the workforce, etc etc. Hello Japanese "orange face demon". Sounds like what the new regime in America is trying to do. I'm surprised he didn't mention trying to take their voting rights away.

Susie Elle
Community Member
8 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So ... 'we need more babies, let's remove fertile women's uteri'? Is this man clinically insane or just criminally stupid?

Donald
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here is a wild idea. Ease up on the ethnocentric ideas, drop the causal attitude towards racism, try to fix the insane work culture, and make it easier for foreigners to immigrate into Japan and you'll likely get a large population of people who would love to come to Japan and build a life there. Japan is exceptional in many ways but can be frosty towards people who aren't ethnically Japanese. I know it isn't something unique to Japan but its certainly more prevalent than other places.

TotallyNOTAFox
Community Member
4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem is that any other nation with suitable emmigrants have probelms with declining populations as well

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ggus44
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can someone please just kill the lunatics like this one? They are f*****g things up all over the world because other lunatics follow them.

TotallyNOTAFox
Community Member
4 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dangerous idea though, who knows what else counts a lunatic idea next week? (Not defending him, just pointing out the potential abuse of such system)

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Earonn -
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're testing the waters, ladies, testing the waters. Good luck becoming a rightless, moneyless, breeding mare.

Gwyn
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe if you saw women as valuable outside of reproduction you'd have more success. Pay them what you pay men. Give them work life balance. Raise your young men to value women as a person. Then marriage and kids will naturally follow if you support parenthood also.

Ben Aziza
Community Member
8 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHAT??? LET US INDULGE this insanity for a more than 2 seconds... HOW CAN removing the organ that grows babies GIVE you more babies??? WHAT kinda logic?... Ehhh... It is not women who are the problem SOMEHOW???... It is the root cause of things like suicide nets... Ppl don't have time for kids if they have to work from 8:00 to 20:00 no rational woman or man would think they can bring a kid with that little time. They dont even have time for themselves... MANY WOULD rather end it all... THAT IS THE F problem... ps: The silver ligning is that everyone now including his party knows how insane their head is and RIGHTFULLY went WTF???

Guess Undheit
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Typical idiot r@pey politician, and typical "christmas cake" attitude in Asia ("if she isn't opened by the 25th, there's something wrong with her"). This just gives women MORE incentive not marry useless males. If they REALLY wanted to up the birth rate, they would increase wages and lower housing costs, THE TWO MAIN REASONS young people say they won't get married and won't have kids. But no, no, no, never address the problem when you can make it worse.

Hammerfairy
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Smart men once again telling what is good for women... They are sooooo bright. What has been removed from Mr. Haykuta? The brain or the heart or both perhaps?

Libstak
Community Member
6 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So women should be kept dumb..no schooling after 18, married when they are young and naive...no chance to understand mysoginystic abusive behaviours before making an informed choice and keep them bare foot and pregnant until 30...hurry up there, make sure they pop them out at least every 2nd year, that will keep them both occupied and too stressed raising screaming babies and cleaning and cooking to get in the way of the men who need to live a happy life gad dammit. The 19th century called, no they don't want their village idiot back, they said suck it up, you can keep him.

B
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hearing the words 'Boost the economy' from business leaders and politicians translates to 'We need you to help us make more money'. The Earth's population is growing exponentially - people need to look that up before making these sweeping statements purely for financial gain. Pointless being a billionaire when there is no more land to farm and no more food to eat because every square inch is bursting at the seams with humans.

TribbleThinking
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Japan legalised Viagra before finally legalising birth control for women.

Socks Thecate
Community Member
7 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women aren't farm animals. Raising children takes time, commitment and unpaid work if done properly. I notice any proposal about increasing the birth rate never asks a damned thing of men. Only women, shaming women, telling women they are farm animals......

B
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would you want to have possibly a little girl & bring her into this world??!!

Isabella
Community Member
5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The funny part is - he'd be shocked how many of us would gladly undergo the procedure to just make sure we'll never have babies because getting actual medical help for any of women's health problem s is nonexistent.

Panda Kicki
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had 4 kids after 30. But I assume the proposal is a publicity stunt without any irl connection. And he did get his headlines.

Learner Panda
Community Member
4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am first in the queue for removing balls and other male reproductive organs, local anaesthetic only. So they can watch the operation.

Nitka Tsar
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How would that have helped in declining birth rates? WTF? This is laughable!

A. Br.
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gotta blame that so called "Not dating girls over 25" Leo thing

Libstak
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not really now that it can be done via key hole surgery and the removal out via the vagina, minimal internal and external stitches that way, so much lower risk. Recovery still takes time though as the entire abdominal musculature and nervous system is being shoved about.

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Orysha
Community Member
2 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is seppuku still a tradition in Japan? At least he could die wth some honour. and he will stop uttering hateful nonsense.

TotallyNOTAFox
Community Member
4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Making a family affordable both monetary and time wise might be a better approach. And wow, parents get one year off work just now? We have that here in Germany since decades, work less and have a stronger economy - yet we have still the same problem. Lots of work to do over in Japan

Karina
Community Member
4 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Good", stress the s**t out pf woman everywhere, wich makes sure they give birth to girls more often than boys, then we'll have our revolution 💪nature finds a way. Eta I forgot about the revolution 🙃

Casey Payne
Community Member
5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"How do you perceive Naoki Hyakuta's apology for his comments?" Just because he said it as a joke, that joke wasn't made in a vacuum. In this case, it was made while he wading in a pool of stagnant sewage of his own mind. The fact that he is in any capacity of power should disturb people everywhere. We are global. When the monstrous is spoken out loud in one place, it will be used in another by similar minded a******s that have no restraint on their ideas or behaviors. Get that dangerous a*****e out of power, now.

Christopher Crockett
Community Member
5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's Happening In Japan? 99%- Some really crazy sh!t! 1%- Everything else.

Lexi
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With his statement and his clear idiocy, I think he needs to go back to school and learn human biology focusing on the female reproduction system. Maybe then he may get some idea that ripping it out really won't help a declining population. At the same time he should consider quitting politics and become a monk.

A. Br.
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry.. But if having more children born. Wouldn't you rather have as many active uteruses as possible? Many women have babies past the age of 25

Ash
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Frankly, I'd be happy if they would have just LET me get a hysterectomy when I ASKED for one ten years ago!!! sheesh.

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Ash
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"We need more women to have babies! We need a solution to this problem! ... Hey, how about we remove their uteruses? THAT will raise the birthrate!" Uh............. I don't know how to tell you this..............

Cathy Roberts
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Huh. Apparently, it's not just here in the US where conservative men are overly invested in women's reproductive rights. Whodathunk.

Guess Undheit
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Japan's population is already in decline. They sell more adult diapers to old people than diapers to babies. China, Russia, Taiwan, and several other countries are on the same path, governments refusing to address the issue of low wages and thieves in the housing market.

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Rocket Surgeon
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How about we just stop treating half the population like breeding stock?

Enlee Jones
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women aren't people to them. We're just breeding cows, servants and sex toys.

Deborah B
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, forcibly sterilising women is suposed to *increase* the birthrate? No college for women means low-paying jobs, which means they aren't financially stable enough to afford children.

tori Ohno
Community Member
7 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sooo, you want more children to be born, but you want to sterilize perfectly fertile women? Women who are at a point in their careers that they can, maybe, finally afford to have one? Tell us your real concern here. Like, destroying women and their futures, taking their education away, making them unable to survive, removing them from the workforce, etc etc. Hello Japanese "orange face demon". Sounds like what the new regime in America is trying to do. I'm surprised he didn't mention trying to take their voting rights away.

Susie Elle
Community Member
8 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So ... 'we need more babies, let's remove fertile women's uteri'? Is this man clinically insane or just criminally stupid?

Donald
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here is a wild idea. Ease up on the ethnocentric ideas, drop the causal attitude towards racism, try to fix the insane work culture, and make it easier for foreigners to immigrate into Japan and you'll likely get a large population of people who would love to come to Japan and build a life there. Japan is exceptional in many ways but can be frosty towards people who aren't ethnically Japanese. I know it isn't something unique to Japan but its certainly more prevalent than other places.

TotallyNOTAFox
Community Member
4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem is that any other nation with suitable emmigrants have probelms with declining populations as well

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ggus44
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can someone please just kill the lunatics like this one? They are f*****g things up all over the world because other lunatics follow them.

TotallyNOTAFox
Community Member
4 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dangerous idea though, who knows what else counts a lunatic idea next week? (Not defending him, just pointing out the potential abuse of such system)

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Earonn -
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're testing the waters, ladies, testing the waters. Good luck becoming a rightless, moneyless, breeding mare.

Gwyn
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe if you saw women as valuable outside of reproduction you'd have more success. Pay them what you pay men. Give them work life balance. Raise your young men to value women as a person. Then marriage and kids will naturally follow if you support parenthood also.

Ben Aziza
Community Member
8 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHAT??? LET US INDULGE this insanity for a more than 2 seconds... HOW CAN removing the organ that grows babies GIVE you more babies??? WHAT kinda logic?... Ehhh... It is not women who are the problem SOMEHOW???... It is the root cause of things like suicide nets... Ppl don't have time for kids if they have to work from 8:00 to 20:00 no rational woman or man would think they can bring a kid with that little time. They dont even have time for themselves... MANY WOULD rather end it all... THAT IS THE F problem... ps: The silver ligning is that everyone now including his party knows how insane their head is and RIGHTFULLY went WTF???

Guess Undheit
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Typical idiot r@pey politician, and typical "christmas cake" attitude in Asia ("if she isn't opened by the 25th, there's something wrong with her"). This just gives women MORE incentive not marry useless males. If they REALLY wanted to up the birth rate, they would increase wages and lower housing costs, THE TWO MAIN REASONS young people say they won't get married and won't have kids. But no, no, no, never address the problem when you can make it worse.

Hammerfairy
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Smart men once again telling what is good for women... They are sooooo bright. What has been removed from Mr. Haykuta? The brain or the heart or both perhaps?

Libstak
Community Member
6 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So women should be kept dumb..no schooling after 18, married when they are young and naive...no chance to understand mysoginystic abusive behaviours before making an informed choice and keep them bare foot and pregnant until 30...hurry up there, make sure they pop them out at least every 2nd year, that will keep them both occupied and too stressed raising screaming babies and cleaning and cooking to get in the way of the men who need to live a happy life gad dammit. The 19th century called, no they don't want their village idiot back, they said suck it up, you can keep him.

B
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hearing the words 'Boost the economy' from business leaders and politicians translates to 'We need you to help us make more money'. The Earth's population is growing exponentially - people need to look that up before making these sweeping statements purely for financial gain. Pointless being a billionaire when there is no more land to farm and no more food to eat because every square inch is bursting at the seams with humans.

TribbleThinking
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Japan legalised Viagra before finally legalising birth control for women.

Socks Thecate
Community Member
7 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Women aren't farm animals. Raising children takes time, commitment and unpaid work if done properly. I notice any proposal about increasing the birth rate never asks a damned thing of men. Only women, shaming women, telling women they are farm animals......

B
Community Member
7 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why would you want to have possibly a little girl & bring her into this world??!!

Isabella
Community Member
5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The funny part is - he'd be shocked how many of us would gladly undergo the procedure to just make sure we'll never have babies because getting actual medical help for any of women's health problem s is nonexistent.

Panda Kicki
Community Member
8 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had 4 kids after 30. But I assume the proposal is a publicity stunt without any irl connection. And he did get his headlines.

Learner Panda
Community Member
4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am first in the queue for removing balls and other male reproductive organs, local anaesthetic only. So they can watch the operation.

Nitka Tsar
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How would that have helped in declining birth rates? WTF? This is laughable!

A. Br.
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gotta blame that so called "Not dating girls over 25" Leo thing

Libstak
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not really now that it can be done via key hole surgery and the removal out via the vagina, minimal internal and external stitches that way, so much lower risk. Recovery still takes time though as the entire abdominal musculature and nervous system is being shoved about.

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Orysha
Community Member
2 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is seppuku still a tradition in Japan? At least he could die wth some honour. and he will stop uttering hateful nonsense.

TotallyNOTAFox
Community Member
4 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Making a family affordable both monetary and time wise might be a better approach. And wow, parents get one year off work just now? We have that here in Germany since decades, work less and have a stronger economy - yet we have still the same problem. Lots of work to do over in Japan

Karina
Community Member
4 hours ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Good", stress the s**t out pf woman everywhere, wich makes sure they give birth to girls more often than boys, then we'll have our revolution 💪nature finds a way. Eta I forgot about the revolution 🙃

Casey Payne
Community Member
5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"How do you perceive Naoki Hyakuta's apology for his comments?" Just because he said it as a joke, that joke wasn't made in a vacuum. In this case, it was made while he wading in a pool of stagnant sewage of his own mind. The fact that he is in any capacity of power should disturb people everywhere. We are global. When the monstrous is spoken out loud in one place, it will be used in another by similar minded a******s that have no restraint on their ideas or behaviors. Get that dangerous a*****e out of power, now.

Christopher Crockett
Community Member
5 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's Happening In Japan? 99%- Some really crazy sh!t! 1%- Everything else.

Lexi
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With his statement and his clear idiocy, I think he needs to go back to school and learn human biology focusing on the female reproduction system. Maybe then he may get some idea that ripping it out really won't help a declining population. At the same time he should consider quitting politics and become a monk.

A. Br.
Community Member
6 hours ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry.. But if having more children born. Wouldn't you rather have as many active uteruses as possible? Many women have babies past the age of 25

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