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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare (www.xatakaon.com)

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[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

There are many other social factors that make parenthood undesirable in Japan that this does not address.