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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 Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare

Japan has been grappling with its demographic statistics with a sense of urgency, particularly regarding its declining birth rate. In 2023, the country...

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Also...loosen immigration laws?

I know it's a very closed off nation with deep cultural roots that is very weary of outsiders...
- I don't mind finding work in Japan... ...if it wasn't so hostile to workers
  
  So far, Japan is near the bottom of my list for western countries to work at, and I would much rather find a job in Korea instead
  
  Japan is near the bottom of my list for western countries
  
  Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it's the farthest East county possible.
  
  I think the words you were looking for were "first world countries".
  
  Japan is an Eastern country. In fact, it's the farthest East county possible.
  
  No love for New Zealand huh?
  
  What's a New Zealand?
  
  Checked my map, it's not there
  
  It's an updated version of a Dutch province
  
  New Zealand? What's that?
  
  its so east that it loops back around to being west
  
  It’s*
  
  Syntax mistake—not grammar
  
  [Pedentry intensitfies]
  
  Appropriate user name, though.
  
  Syntax would be more like sentence structure and order. Contractions are indeed grammar.
  
  Nobody takes that to be literally about geography anymore. Japan might be far away from Texas, but it's politically a lot closer than Russia just a ferry ride away.
  
  Developed*
  
  Depends on your meridian.
  
  Po-tay-to po-tah-to doesn't really matter to distinguish between them when what I meant was clear, although I probably would've said first world if I was nitpicking my post before sending
- Racist, the word is racist
  
  I know... 😔
  
  Additionally, the word is "wary"
  
  Love all races. Except the human race. Terrible, awful people they are.
  
  Now this is a racist idea I can agree with.
  
  (Although, I actually bet aliens are shit as well at the equivalent stage of development)
- That's crazy talk, you'd get lot's of filthy foreigners in that way.
- I know it’s a very closed off nation with deep cultural roots that is very weary of outsiders…
  
  Europe doesn't get to use that excuse, and neither should they. I don't care how different whale meat shashimi seems from foi gras, or bonsai from tulip arrangements.
- Absolutely! Even if it's unlikely to happen, we shouldn't let that distract us from what the best decisions would be.

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