Japan's males are transforming into grass-eaters...

In Japan some call them herbivores, and on Saturday nights they come out to graze: a perfumed army of preening masculinity. Groomed and primped, hair teased to peacock-like perfection and bodies wrapped in tight-fitting clothes, their habitat is the crowded city where they live in fear of commitment, and the odd carnivorous female who preys on them. 

For much of this decade, the older men who drove this country to the top of the economic league tables have looked on in bewilderment at the foppish antics of the generation below. More...

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3. Japan's baby bust, racism, and the robot revolution...
4. Karoshi or overwork, Japan's silent killer...
5. Japan: porn for the elderly...
6. 32,000 people in Japan committed suicide last year...