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Happy Coming of Age Day!

by Kris ⋅ January 8, 2007 ⋅ Comment now ⋅ Subscribe RSS

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The drinking and voting age in Japan is twenty years old and today is the celebration of that occasion, and it is called “Coming of Age Day” for lack of creative terminology. These new adults party hardy at Tokyo Disneyland, city halls and temples across Japan to celebrate. What’s more alarming than the number of teens who already drink heavily before their legal coming of age, is the decreasing number of teens in the population. There were only 1.4 million twenty-year-olds this past year, only 30,000 more than the record low in 1987.

There is also a large amount of teens with an aversion to work and others with an aversion to society. Almost a million youths (~6% of the entire teenage populace and ~12% of all male teens) suffer from Acute Social Withdrawal, recluses who refuse to leave their bedrooms. What’s stranger still is that ASW sufferers around the globe (including many here in America) are usually rich, attractive and smart. This phenomena, combined with the declining birth rate, may make for one heck of a small Coming of Age Day celebration in the future.