RE: Japan’s nationalism and ethnocentricity
How about a slow change in cultural attitude through education ? We live in a global economy now and I am sure that most Japanese are aware of this demographic problem.
One other possibility would be to ENCOURAGE more children via incentives.
Plan would pay Japanese families to have kids
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/japan.children/index.html
Japan’s birthrate is one of the lowest in the world. With about a quarter of the country’s population older than 65, the forecast is that by 2050, this will reach 40 percent if things don’t change fast.
Japanese families have kept their children low in number because of financial difficulties. Out of this comes the “cash for kids” plan, a brainchild of Japan’s new ruling Democratic Party to pay parents $3,400 a year per child until the child reaches high school–a program which is criticized by some.