Masayuki Ozaki, 45, regularly takes a life-size, life-like doll he considers the love of his life out on dates around Tokyo.
Ozaki shares his bed with a silicone doll named Mayu under the same roof as his wife and daughter..
When his marriage lost its spark after his wife gave birth, Ozaki turned to the plastic doll for comfort.
“The moment I saw Mayu in the showroom, it was love at first sight,” Ozaki said, reports the Inquirer.
Ozaki shares that he prefers Mayu because Mayu listens to him better than his wife.
“Japanese women are cold-hearted. They’re very selfish. Men want someone to listen to them without grumbling when they get home from work,” he added.
More and more Japanese men like Ozaki are turning their backs from the traditional human relationship in exchange for “true love” with plastic dolls.
As Japan struggles with a falling birthrate, with the number of births in Japan dropping below one million last year, the doll-making industry proves to be costly to Japan’s economy.
Official efforts to encourage people to have more children have had only modest results, according to a report by The Independent.
Adding to this is Japanese women’s decision to marry late to avoid the pressure to give up their careers.
Hideo Tsuchiya, managing director of doll maker Orient Industry explained why men prefer the dolls over real women/
“They look incredibly real now and it feels like you’re touching human skin. More men are buying them because they feel they can actually communicate with the dolls,” Inquirer quoted Tsuchiya as saying.
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