Abstract

Brutal and heartbreaking!
Fathers' inconvenient true feelings, which deserve our attention in this era of extremely low birth rates.
This long-awaited book version of the controversial reportage that sparked both positive and negative reactions when it was serialized online!

One man said, "Raising children is a handicap for my profession."
Another said, "Once a child is born, my love for my wife disappears."
Another said, "Humans are naturally meant to have children. There's something wrong with couples who don't."
Another said, "The cause of the declining birthrate is the 'infantilization of women.'"
Another said, "I had children because I saw the ceiling of my career."
Another said, "I had four children as an experiment."
Another prayed, "God, please don't let me have children."
Another man counter-questioned, "Aren't people with children and those without children fundamentally incapable of understanding each other?"
Another said, "I needed children as a constant source of change to keep me from going crazy."

The bitter realities of men with and without children in Japan in the Reiwa era are now exposed.
Still, will you have children?

Author’s Information

Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1974. Writer, columnist, and editor. After graduating from the Faculty of Economics at Yokohama National University, he joined the film distribution company Gaga Communications (now Gaga). He then worked as editor-in-chief of a DVD industry magazine and book editor at Kinema Junposha before going independent in 2013. His 2022 book "People Who Watch Movies in Fast Forward: Fast Movies and Spoilers - The Current State of Content Consumption" (Kobunsha Shinsho) became a hot topic and won second place in the Shinsho Grand Prix 2023. His other works include "Social Theory of the Sailor Moon Generation" (Subarusha Linkage), "Dora-gatari: Nobita-like Boys and the Era of Fujiko F. Fujio" (PLANETS), "Social Theory of Kochikame: Deciphering First-Class Cultural Historical Materials" (East Press), "Our Divorce" (Kadokawa Shinsho), "A Report on the Broken Marriage: Our Divorce" (Seidansha Publico), "Potato Chips and the Japanese: The Birth of a National Food that Embraces Life" (Asahi Shinsho), and "This Documentary is Fiction" (Kobunsha).