These statistics provide some evidence: http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/30-of-single-japanese-men-have-never-dated-a-woman.html http://www.japancrush.com

These statistics provide some evidence: http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/30-of-single-japanese-men-have-never-dated-a-woman.html http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/30-of-single-japanese... There is an antithetic trend in Japan though, since Japanese women are emancipated and the high economic demands prevent them from investing time into dating. So, the numbers could possibly differ even more. (I’m not sure how emancipation affects the statistics for the males, though.)