Dating requires a few factors to happen: disposable income, a stable schedule, and housing privacy. Late stage conditions produce irregular work hours, high costs of living relative to wages, and people living with their parents or roommates into mid-life. Relationships, or even casual sex, become logistical drains.

Parasociality becomes a pressure... See more

Parasociality emerges because real relationships require stability and time investment — neither accessible to the average Japanese worker.