No More Weddings in Japan | STJ 161

No More Weddings in Japan | STJ 161

From Small Talk Japan by Small Talk Japan

August 21, 2022 · 34 min · Season 1 · Episode 161

About this episode

This episode discusses the decline in marriages in Japan, the impact of record hot summers on language, and the rise of robots in convenience stores.

Marriages taking major blows, record hot summers changing Japanese vocabulary, and robots taking over jobs in convenience stores! Those are the topics for this week's episode of Small Talk Japan with Mitch and Alex! Articles from this week's episode https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/08/e05251057991-japan-population-falls-at-record-pace-to-12593-mil-with-births-low.html https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/08/34e34c946290-japan-to-offer-omicron-covid-shot-to-at-least-twice-vaccinated-people.html https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/08/204718187dee-pandemic-delivers-major-blow-to-no-of-new-marriages-in-japan-study.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/shinzo-abes-assassin-tetsuya-yamagami-succeeds-in-plot-to-expose-japans-deep-ties-with-unification-church https://soranews24.com/2022/08/10/very-limited-sale-of-glasses-that-can-halt-or-reverse-nearsightedness-begin-in-japan/ https://soranews24.com/2022/08/06/japan-weather-association-creates-new-words-to-describe-merciless-summer-heat/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/08/10/national/crime-legal/homemade-gunpowder-embassy-man/…

People in this episode

Hosts: Mitch, Alex

Topics covered

  • marriage
  • vocabulary
  • robots
  • convenience stores
  • population decline
  • COVID-19

Keywords

  • marriage decline
  • Japanese vocabulary
  • robots
  • convenience stores
  • COVID-19
  • population decline

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kyodo News, The Daily Beast, Sora News 24, Japan Times

Places: Japan

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