Masayoshi Kishimoto stepped on the grass on the golf course, and in addition to feeling the softness and elasticity under his feet, he also smelled the grass.

He, Ryuichi Kitano, and President Pachinko are the three of them walking side by side at the front. A distance of one or twenty meters behind them, the others slowly followed.

At the same time, Kazuzu Takahashi will not be idle. Of course, he knows that playing golf is just a cover, and the most important thing is to build relationships.

He and Ryuichi Kitano's secretary and the henchmen of President Pachinko exchanged their business cards. They walked along with each other and chatted about other things.

"Does Kishimoto-kun have a girlfriend?" asked Ryuichi Kitano casually, seemingly lightly.

"Nope. Masayoshi Kishimoto answered directly without even hesitating. It's not that he doesn't know that if he really answers the word "yes" truthfully, then he will create a lack of sincerity for himself in the future.

In case the other party wants to introduce someone's daughter or their own daughter to themselves, they also have to deal with it. It is said that there is a clear distinction between public and private, but it is just talking.

For thousands of years, the culture of human relations in East Asia has always been inseparable from women, blood relations, classmates, etc. The Japanese value the direct line first, and the collateral line second.

"Young people shouldn't just be busy with their careers. The solution of personal problems is to share the worries of the country. Japan's aging population and declining birthrate are gradually revealed.

Twenty years later, these seemingly trivial problems will become big problems. Japan's population continues to decline year by year. Kitano said calmly.

"It's a real problem. The most important factor for young people not to get married, not to have children, not to fall in love should not be unilaterally attributed to their lack of responsibility.

One is the most direct reason for having no money and being poor. Ordinary young people in their twenties and thirties basically have little left in their monthly salary income except for their own expenses.

Even if you have a little money to spare, you want to devote yourself to your hobby. Second, falling in love feels very troublesome for many young people. I'm sure you older generations don't understand this.

Third, young people like my generation have personally experienced the bursting of Japan's initial economic bubble in the 90s, the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 95, and the Asian financial crisis in 97, which has led to a lot of changes in thinking.

Japanese women are becoming more realistic, and they are becoming more aware of what they want and what kind of man they are looking for. According to common sense, Japan is a country where there are more women than men, and there should not be a problem of many men not being able to find wives.

However, this question really arises. Japanese women generally look upward, which creates an imbalance in the match between men and women.

All of them want to find a boyfriend or husband in the top 10%-20% of high-quality men. However, high-quality men are a very small minority.

This structural imbalance is man-made, not natural. Middle- and upper-class men have too many women around them, and middle- and lower-class men have too few women around them.

Therefore, in order to alleviate this increasingly prominent contradiction in Japan, the government has introduced and targeted overseas bride introduction plans for the Philippines, Vietnam, China, South Korea and other countries.

Of course, this cannot be unilaterally blamed on Japanese women, after all, it is forced by reality. In terms of income, they are much lower than men, only half, or even a third.

In the minds of many of them, they don't want to work, and after they get married, they want to be full-time housewives and raise children.

For this reason, they are bent on finding a man with financial strength, who can not only live an easier and decent life, but also reduce the divorce rate in marriage. Ordinary people get divorced, most of the time because of money.

This voluntary withdrawal of women from the labor market has led to a shortage of labor in Japan, and it has been necessary to recruit trainees from many developing countries abroad to make up for it.

Japanese men also feel that Japanese women are becoming more and more materialistic and more and more money-loving, which further discourages many of them from wanting to take the initiative. Rather than fail, it is better to live in your own little world.

Fourth, the most fundamental reason, is the rigidity of social class promotion. As a result, young people often lose sight of hope, and then lose their great motivation to be positive.

Japan's population needs to remain around 100 million in order to remain competitive. Kishimoto said eloquently.

"That's what the young people of your generation think. Ryuichi Kitano and President Pachinko made eye contact with each other and nodded their heads in unison.

If it weren't for Roppongi's new town renovation project, Masayoshi Kishimoto would never have taken the initiative to play golf with the two old men.

Their generation was still living in the golden 30 years of Japan's rapid economic development. At that time, the Japanese, whether they were young or middle-aged, were like being beaten with chicken blood.

They are very active in their work, and working overtime all night is commonplace, and overwork does not exist at all, but they are regarded as weak, and they claim to be the most fierce people in the company, not at all like the self-deprecating social animals of later generations.

Therefore, the fact that Japan was able to recover quickly from the ruins after the war was not a one-way Korean War, the Vietnam War and other external favorable factors brought opportunities to Japan, but the most important thing was that the people generally possessed that kind of positive fighting spirit and drive.

Masayoshi Kishimoto knew that it was precisely because of the existence of one thing that Japan had a population of 100 million in 1970, and it was the Japanese government that confidently proposed a plan for the 100 million middle class.

He naturally thought of the kind of positive fighting spirit and enthusiasm that the Chinese possessed, which mainly appeared in the southern coastal areas in the eighties and nineties in the early days of reform and opening up.

The most representative of this is the Wenzhou people. At that time, it was very popular to say that the government cannot be blamed for the misery of life, and the society cannot be blamed for the back.

The eight-hour workday, which was made for the unmotivated. It was also these people who suffered unprecedented pain in 1998 and were laid off.

Self-motivated people, they work more than ten hours a day, and they don't rest on weekends. Even if you only sleep three or five hours a day, it is completely sufficient.

Overwork, in Chinese mainland at this time, is still completely non-existent. They wish they had forty-eight hours in a day.

That kind of vitality is a summary that Kishimoto got from the mouth of lecturers, materials, documentaries, etc., when he was a university student in his previous life.