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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why can't immigration replace births?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Because Japan doesn’t do that.

There is an -ism they’re pretty big on, it starts with R

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Okay, but then we can't just frame the discussion as "increase birth rates or society collapses" because there's a very obvious third option that they aren't taking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Because Japan doesn’t do that.

They apparently don't do procreation, either.