I don’t

SEIKO, a 35-year-old journalist in Tokyo, is what the Japanese refer to as “New Year Noodles”. The year ends on December 31st, and, by analogy, the period when a Japanese woman is deemed a desirable marriage prospect ends after 31. It could have been worse: the slang term used to be “Christmas cake” because a woman’s best-before date was considered to be 25.

[AKANE_Daigo]

世界でも類を見ない未婚率の高さの日本。ところでアメリカやイギリスの婚外子の割合は4割を超えるのか。