Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth Rate

Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by leidenfrost on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:37PM (#42776308)

Maybe if they were more open to immigration culturally, a lot of people would happily integrate to their society.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by loeg on Monday January 20, 2025 @11:32PM (#42776652)

There aren't enough babies worldwide -- TFR is rapidly falling even in poor countries. Immigrating our way out of it doesn't scale to the world.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by cameronh90 on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:45PM (#42776370)

Immigration won’t save us.

The birth rate is declining faster than expected across the whole world. There aren’t going to be enough young migrants to go around and keep pumping up the numbers.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by ekianjo on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:41PM (#42776340)

Immigration is just a band aid. It won't make Japanese people have more babies.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by twelve40 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @12:39AM (#42776970)

i don't have the numbers, but i started seeing Indian clerks at 7-11 there. never seen them when i lived there a couple decades ago

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