"The prime minister said the plan was to double the budget for child-rearing policies, focusing on three pillars: economic support, child care services and reform of working styles."
Double a currently lousy budget amount isn't even close to being good enough.
One of THE biggest problems is that women wind up carrying the weight of both sets of elderly parents in Japan. Why should a woman get married and double her burden for an indefinite amount of time--often longer than raising a child! You need elder care support and services in order to free up the younger generation to actually have children.
At the end, it's all about money. Society is going to have to funnel a whopping amount of money at young women to convince them to take on all the downsides of getting pregnant and raising a family.
