In recent decades, most economically developed East Asian countries have experienced
extremely low fertility levels as well as high and rising childlessness. In Japan, Hong Kong …

Objective This study examines the determinants of marriage decline in South Korea, a
representative case of the “demographic crisis” sweeping East Asia. Background The major …

Background While fertility rates have decreased during the second half of the 20th century in
Japan, little is known regarding trends in the number of children that men and women have …

Researchers have proposed various explanations for the increase in singlehood in post-
industrialized countries, but the questions of how singles interpret their singlehood and what …

In this paper, we introduce a project on singles' intimate practices conducted during COVID
times as a case study of quantitative social research with a particular focus on qualitative …

The increase in the number of never‐married and not‐cohabiting singles, or “effective
singles,” was first observed in Japan and Southern Europe. In Northern and Western Europe …

Research on educational assortative mating has devoted much attention to educational
expansion but has been less focused on a concurrent trend of importance: growing …

BACKGROUND East Asian societies have experienced rapid social changes, among which
the extraordinary expansion of higher education for both women and men, rising economic …

La fécondité a baissé jusqu'à des niveaux extrêmement bas dans la plupart des pays
développés d'Asie de l'Est au cours des dernières décennies. Autour d'une femme sur trois …

Singles—here understood as unmarried or never married individuals—are a growing subset
of the Japanese population that has not received discrete attention in the context of the …