This did not come from The Onion:
More sex. That’s what one expert says is needed to solve Japan’s baby shortage.
“Japanese people simply aren’t having sex,” Dr. Kunio Kitamura, director of the Japan Family Planning Association, was quoted as saying by the Japan Times, an English language daily.
An association survey of 936 people between the ages of 16 and 49 showed 31 percent had not had sex for more than a month “for no particular reason” — a condition known as “sexless.” (Where I come from, we call it “NERD!”)
“As much as subsidies and welfare programs are important, sexlessness is also a critical issue in this problem.”
To which a friend of mine replied:
Seriously, what Japan are they surveying?
Obviously not Roppongi.