More Than Friends, But Not Quite Lovers: Japanese Marriage Trends www.nippon.com

Japan DataA recent survey revealed some interesting facts about married Japanese couples, including their tendency to often eat dinner together but rarely have sex.
A national survey on household trends found that although around 90% of Japanese married couples eat dinner together, only a quarter of them regularly or sometimes have sexual relations.
The image of relationships that emerges from the survey, conducted every five years by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, is that married couples are good friends but not lovers.
Conversely, the number of those who reported that they never show physical affection or have sexual intercourse exceeded the number who did.
In particular, just 4.5% of the married couples said that they often have sex, as compared to 52.6% who have no sex at all.