Surveys have found Japanese people still generally want to get married, but sex isn't all that important in the short term. Not that work is necessarily any more fulfilling.
"I do not see any joy in my job right now," Yoshiko Onuki, who works in marketing for Nissan, told Business Insider. Her husband Takehiro echoed the sentiment, saying the routine of his job at a steel supply company has become "boring."
They both say they want to look for new jobs, although neither could specify when that change might occur.