Japanese Socio-Cultural Stigma Affects Increasing Adult Eating Disorder Patients

Abstract

In terms of difficulty combining career of Japanese women and raising children in Japanese society, they tend to marrying later, which also affect to increase the number of eating disorder of Japanese women patients. According to the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare research, 27, 193 divorced were out of 73, 117 Japanese marriages in 2009¹. 87, 551 infants were out of 127, 540, 000 populations in 2009². Indeed, the statistic addresses the declining the number of 1, 115 infants last year. Factors identified as aggravating the low marriage and birth-rates include rising educational expenses, personal experiences, environment, changing childrenfamily values, diversity lifestyles among women, and the increasing number of parasite singles which is unmarried adults who remain dependent on their parents.