In white’s book, it is said that teenagers in Japan are asexual and eager to study, compared to Americans. Indeed, Japanese have the image for American which is like more open about their sex than Japanese, so that somehow White’s statement is still right. However, compared to past in Japan, I would say Japanese teenager is no longer asexual. As I wrote in school essay, the entrance exam system for university, which require students to study for so long time, still exists in Japan. So the fact that teenager is eager to study is not much changed but their attitude toward their sexuality is getting more open years by years.
I heard it was thought having chat about sex are embarrassing, because sexuality was private matter. But when I was in high school, my friends talked about sex, even when some girls join the conversation. In daily at school, we sometimes talked about sex seriously, sometimes as a joke or foolishly. And also, I know many boys and girls who have had sex before graduating from high school. Maybe around me, I guess about half of teenagers have done. In addition, enjokousai which is one of the teenagers prostitution, was huge problem in Japan. Many teenagers concerned with it. From this view point, (of course it is not good thing), we can tell the attitude about sex has been changing Still between parents and children, it is rare to talk about sex. But I guess it is all the same in all over the world. So I could say teens in Japan are not asexual anymore. I think attitude for sexuality depends on people, so it is really hard to tell which American teenagers and Japanese teenagers are more open to sex but Japanese getting more open about sex than past.
Maybe, backgrounds of this change strongly related to Hollywood movies or other American cultures. Hollywood movies are popular in Japan, and it shows us open sexuality.
However, I think social attitude about sex in Japan has not much changed. The one good example is school sexual education. It does not teach student clearly, just remained vaguely. So many misunderstand sex, and rapid AIDS spreading are serious problem in Japan. The change of the society cannot reach the change of the teenagers attitude about sex.