Here is just the catch if you can get it. Most women are fertile in their late teens and their early 20s. It is important to make incentives for young pairs to want to have children as early as possible and as much as possible (i will say 2-4 around). THe replacement rate is 2.1 so twice as many japanese couples around the age of 16-29 should be encouraged to envelope. Yes there are women who can give birth to children afterwards but first they are not the majority and second even for them it is hard to reproduce more than one in best case 2. (and even if Kaori looks like that she would be able too, I do not know if it is deceiving since she already nears the 40 treshold)
There are a lot of issues, which are only happening in industrialized countries (especially those that have adopted a lot of western individualistic values).
I'm concerned Japan has already gone too far down the line of population collapse and the cumulative effects are already in place.
What are the issues? Lack of skill in the natural process of starting relationships, reliance on gamified, reality-distorting dating apps, an abundance of non-commital and digital alternatives to relationships for the young (including paid options), indefinitely postponing trying to start a family, financial difficulties from a challenging local and global economy, and so on.
Nobita from the Japan Reporter channel has done videos on this issue, same with a lot of other YouTube channels.
You can't legislate attraction, love, or commitment, but you
can eagerly encourage and facilitate opportunities (offline) and provide incentives and support to those that dare (and make it "cool" again). The thing is a couple of generations have normalized never settling down, and the imported gender conflicts from the West (often out of context) haven't helped.
Anyway, I hope they can pull together and find a way forward. A part of that will undoubtedly be having a lot of foreigners permanently resetting in Japan.
Back to the music...!
