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>>anigbr+(OP)
I wonder if offering a more generous Nordic-socialism style maternity policy would help.

There's a bunch of cultural reasons for the low birthrate but a bunch of encouraging benefits might help address that.

>>kristo+yp
Japan is way too densely populated in comparison to Nordic countries. It is difficult to alter a country's socioeconomic status by mimicking some foreign policies originated from a country of desired template.

>>Teeorb+1q
How is population density related to social benefits?

>>Hamuko+Qq
Japan's economy has been long replying on the "integrity" of a more connected society as to the Nordic ones, due to a large population (and high density). Integrity suppresses characteristics of people, so they are more collectivist(more exploited by the heirachy:() and the competition is intense due to this population density. Asia vs West basically.

S Korea is very similar to Japan, also facing the same problem of population decline, you can view S Korea(or even Taiwan) as a lately developed and peninsula version of Japan. Each of them with limited resources and a dense population, in which made J and K what they are today (You can look up how these two countries developed, I am not an expert historian). Even China, has a significant decrease in newborn population, despite its vast landmass and less developed population.

So basically, the achievement of development is brought by whatever suppresses the population at the same time, they are sort of at the local maximum of their country at current time point. The Nordic countries meanwhile are much loosely populated, higher average resources and so on, although not as capitalist as US. Again I am not a Nordic expert, but the distinction is significant enough that I can say applying their policies in Asian countries will not work.

Each country has its own "ecology", that are of course constantly interacting with each other so to speak, but still inertial wrt some policies that are do not cope with it well.