content: No, they see their population as cogs to be ground up and spat out by working them to death from school to retirement, assuming they live that long (and if they don't, 'worked to death' goes from hyperbole to literal; a lot of people die from overwork-related illnesses and/or offing themselves from the same). One of the reasons that stuff like this is cropping up is because a lot of people have given up on their establishment work-to-death system, and with it prospects of marriage and children.  There are other issues, seeing as how their 'herbivore male' situation, as they call it, is a bit more complicated of a beast IIRC, but this is definitely one of the major factors.  That said, all things considered, it's questionable just how much you're missing out on, considering if you're working from 8 AM until 11 PM (or later) 6 days a week and possibly even sleeping in a capsule hotel a lot of the time, it's not like you're going to be seeing your wife and kids much.  Assuming the kids aren't being worked to death in cram school themselves, which they almost certainly are.