For any headline that ends in a question mark the answer is always “no”. I’m not Japanese, and don’t claim to be an expert, but from the outside Japan’s proble

For any headline that ends in a question mark the answer is always “no”. I’m not Japanese, and don’t claim to be an expert, but from the outside Japan’s problem seems to be a deeply engrained and very strange gender dynamic. There appears to be no expectation of care and affection in marriage. No sense of two complete people embarking on a journey together. Japanese men seem weirdly incapable of connecting with women. Japanese women seem weirdly alienated and starved for affection. (Just look at the prevalence of host and hostess bars). Western men in Japan report women flocking to them in part because Japanese women don’t get much at all from Japanese men. I don’t think an app is going to dent the surface of this weird quandary. What might make a difference? Train regular men in the tactics of host bars. “Listen, make her feel welcome, show affection, make her feel that you see and appreciate her, because that makes her feel good” sort of regular shit western people do when courting. And of course the same training could apply on the female side.