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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
You can offer benefits but it’s harder to make people take the benefits. Japan has great paternity leave but no one takes it, because no one else takes it. You can double the length of the leave and it would make no difference.

It’s like the “unlimited” vacation days that some scummy companies offer. They do so confident that people will be shamed by the behaviour of their peers into taking very little vacation.

>>nindal+Tr
An easy change would be to make it mandatory.

>>rowanG+Pu
I'm not sure if the Japanese society is big on obeying labour laws. You'd have to make it mandatory and enforce it heavily.

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/illegal-amounts-of-ove...