[sushiman]

If I were a rich man I'd help support them ! The government misers won't help them that's for sure . God Bless 'em !

[SmokingJoe]

Well they are Japanese, very hard working people.
If it were an American family in Chicago with 11 kids, they'd be screaming insults at Trump everyday even as they fed fat on government subsidies.

[Candor7]

Wonderful , one wonders why the government does not help because the birth rate of Japan is less than population replacement.

[arthurus]

Japan needs many more such families

[alexander_busek]

Some enterprising tv producers should sign them to a contract for a reality show.

Would help out the family, economically, and maybe even help stimulate Japan's overall stagnant birth-rate.

Regards,

[Ge0ffrey]

Are they Catholic?

[BobL]

“If I were a rich man I’d help support them ! The government misers won’t help them that’s for sure . God Bless ‘em !”

I think a handful of us sending them $1000 a month (total) will take care of their rice needs, and I suspect many of us have kids who would be better off not receiving quite as much in inheritance (which is where the money ultimately comes from).

[EnderWiggin1970]

Anyone can do this on a normal salary. You just need to prioritize. Skip the RV and the boat and the expensive vacations and the expensive tutoring sessions (lots of great free resources available), just get catastrophic-level insurance coverage (paying insurance for smaller bills is stupidly wasteful), and so on. Shop in thrift stores and garage sales and accept hand-me-downs.

Work was dramatically less productive a couple centuries ago and it took a large proportion of overall available human labor just to produce enough food. Yet people routinely had large families. Now agricultural workers are down to like 3% of the labor pool, yet people imagine they "can't afford children." That's a lie, and deserves to be mocked. It's simply a matter of priorities.