Unlike in the West, in Japan Christmas is not a cosy time for the family to get together and remember the birth of Jesus.
Instead it is a highly-charged romantic time for young couples in love to exchange presents and book a night in a fancy hotel. As such, it is also a particularly bleak time for Japan's legions of incels. This has led to demonstrations like this one, where we see a small party of incels protesting against the festival under a banner that reads, "Smash Christmas!"
In 2020 the Japan Family Planning Association reported that 45% of young Japanese women, and over 25% of men "were not interested in or despised sexual contact," while in 2016 a survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that almost 70% of unmarried men and 60% of unmarried women are not in a relationship. Moreover, many of these were total virgins. Around 42 percent of the men and 44.2 percent of the women admitted they had never had sex.
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