{"id":80875,"date":"2014-11-05T18:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T09:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=55737"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:48:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:48:34","slug":"fukuoka-is-full-of-single-women","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-is-full-of-single-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Is Full Of Single Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Fukuoka\u2019s ability to attract young people from around Kyushu, statistics show that 34.5% remain unmarried (as of 2010). This figure is higher than the national average of 27.5% and the highest rate recorded by a designated city. One reason is that single women outnumber single men by nearly 13,000. Men outnumber women by 800~1,600 between the ages of 0 and 19, but this trend reverses around the conventional post-graduation job hunting period between ages 20 and 24. Likewise, women aged 25~34 outnumber men by 4,300~6,700. With an average birthrate of 1.24 (four-year average for 2008~2012), Fukuoka ranks fourth lowest among the designated cities and falls under the nationwide average of 1.38. City Hall argues that its average birthrate is lower because it is home to a large number of female students. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 11\/3<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55738\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55738\" class=\" wp-image-55738\" alt=\"Fukuoka Women\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fukuoka-Women.jpg?w=640\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fukuoka-Women.jpg?w=2033&amp;ssl=1 2033w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fukuoka-Women.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fukuoka-Women.jpg?resize=1024%2C676&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided by the City of Fukuoka<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Fukuoka\u2019s ability to attract young people from around Kyushu, statistics show that 34.5% remain unmarried (as of 2010). This figure is higher than the national average of 27.5% and the highest rate recorded by a designated city. One reason is that single women outnumber single men by nearly 13,000. Men outnumber women by 800~1,600 between the ages of 0 and 19, but this trend reverses around the conventional post-graduation job hunting period between ages 20 and 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-80875","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/80875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}