Premarital medical tests spreading as Japanese tie the knot later

More and more people are undergoing premarital medical examinations in Japan as an increasing number of couples struggle with infertility due to late marriages.While many people view checkups positively, as a way to detect health problems at an early stage, some experts are concerned that reproductive capacity could be used as criteria for selecting marriage partners -- eventually leading to a problem of eugenics.The contents of premarital checkups vary depending on institutions but packaged services often include blood tests, checks for sexually transmitted diseases, rubella antibody tests…READ FULL ARTICLE