value. Japanese prefer new homes. Houses don't appreciate in Japan, especially in
rural and suburban areas. They are referred to as "Ghost Houses".
Posted on 06/16/2023 8:06:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
The rise in unmarried people, due to factors such as unstable employment and low incomes is a major cause, says an analyst
The Japanese government has approved a series of new measures, including increased financial support to families, aiming to reverse the alarming decline in the birthrate in the country.
The measures spearheaded by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will allocate an annual budget of approximately 3.5 trillion yen (US$25 billion) over three years (2024-2027).
Kishida identified the lack of adequate income among the younger generation as a major factor contributing to the decline in the birthrate.
“If we do not put a brake on the rapidly declining birthrate and population decline, our country's economy will shrink, and it will become difficult to maintain our social security systems, including local communities, pensions, medical care, and nursing care,” Kishida told media on June 13.
Japan recorded its lowest number of births ever in 2022, at 799,728, highlighting the critical need for action to address the declining birth rate.
The measures look to increase financial assistance to the younger generation.
The lump-sum allowance for childbirth will be increased from 420,000 yen to 500,000 yen (some US$3,500). Additionally, childbirth expenses will be covered by public health insurance to provide greater financial assistance.
Besides, monthly child allowances of 15,000 yen will be granted for each child under the age of three, while children from ages three through senior high school will receive 10,000 yen per month.
For families with a third child and subsequent children, a monthly allowance of 30,000 yen will be provided, regardless of their age, until they reach senior high school.
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Quite the incentives!
You as a dad don’t want to have kids as your wife can just up and obliterate your life.
Who wants to live under that threat?
New definition of pay to play
Problem: guys don’t like sex with women pretending to be men, and women with guys pretending to be women. Oh my, the world is upside down. Romans one 18:32.
Instead of ‘incentives’, reduce the consumption, income, and other taxes and restart small villages. Get people out of the cities and out to the suburbs by providing companies tax breaks to headquarter outside of cities.
Mandate shorter skirts.
Well, in the West, we also have PLENTY of incentives to have kids. The difference, of course, being that 95% of our incentives go to immigrants in order to continue their effort to extinguish the white race, whereas 95% (if not 100%) of Japan’s money will go to Japanese people to build up their race.
I saw nothing making the low birthright a city problem .
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Japan’s very crowded. Giving young families more room could be helpful in motivating couples.
And now the upper class of elite morons now makes 1000 times to almost a million times more per year than the poorest worker.
Sheer rapacious, dehumanizing greed. Greed beyond measure. Without purpose, or joy, or meaning.
Together the oligarchs and governments could at least help the poor get at least running water and a toilet. Let alone 1500 calories a day.
For shame.
In industrialized countries like the US and Japan, housing, education, procreation, and retirement, all becoming unattainable for working normals. Obscene taxes and evil globalist billionaires and their bribed officials make normal human life impossible for any but them. Time for a reform movement as radical as the first American Revolution.
No way I would want to bring a human being into this world.
>I saw nothing making the low birthright a city problem .
The cities are fundamentally anti-child. A lot of the push for kids there is to have one or two, send them to a very competitive middle school, high school, all with the goal of getting them to pass their entry exam to a high level college and continue on in the city.
The countryside is quite different. It’s not uncommon to see 3-5 kid families there, but never in the city. The problem is as people leave the country, the infrastructure leaves with it. There’s a ‘u-turn’ movement to the country, but the cities have so much population (and frankly, especially in Tokyo, much of the female population is happy with some brand name bags, a small dog, and a nice apartment).
One main problem is that all the real villages in the mountains died when Japan started accepting cheap foreign
lumber from China. It killed a good 1/4 of all country villages in the 70s.
"Consumerism" and the 2 income household have broken the nuclear family. Women (and many men) have been brainwashed that life's reward is a career, money, gender equality and independence. As a result, women are unwilling to properly raise children, and men just don't look at a career women the same way. If/when they find time to have a child, it's just 1 or maybe 2. And that's if they have any at all, or even get married.
Who needs children? Hell who needs men?
>”Consumerism” and the 2 income household have broken the nuclear family.
Yeah, and there are a lot of single women in Japan now hitting their 40s and 50s that have a lot of money but no real future other than a lonely grave.
Japan has no support system for parents or children.
When I visited Tokyo I was surprised at how few playgrounds there are for kids. And the playgrounds they gave are concrete with one set if swings.
Furthermore, if your toddler plays, the neighbours call the cops for noise disturbance.
It’s just not worth it for people to have kids in Japan. Money won’t help.
I would and did. Proud of it! God’s will be done!
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