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Take these things with a grain of salt. I would guess the journalist purposely hid the absolute numbers to make the article more interesting. The incentives fo
by danielscrubs 4y ago
Take these things with a grain of salt. I would guess the journalist purposely hid the absolute numbers to make the article more interesting.
The incentives for clicks are just too great.
- rippercushions 4y agoThe absolute number is around 80,000 per year, which is considerable, albeit not huge compared to a population of over 100M. (For comparison, the US has about 140,000 with a 3x larger population.) The bit that is misleading is that adopting or even fostering children not related to you is vanishingly rare in Japan, nearly all orphans end up in orphanages instead.
- eloisant 4y agoI think it used to be much more common in feodal Japan, not just for business owners but also in noble or samurai families to continue the "house".