Japan has a problem with children … it isn’t having any. Japan has the lowest birthrate in the world and they even have invented a word for it – ‘shoshika’, meaning a society without children. Young couples aren’t having babies because a number of factors one of which is money. Raising a child is expensive in Japan. The land of the rising sun even has a baby tax or birth penalty at the hospital because getting pregnant isn’t a sickness and so having a child is seen as elective procedure and the government refuses to cover it.
To encourage more children the ruling party DPJ introduced a child allowance of 13,000 Yen per child a month (Around $US150) until they graduate from junior high school. In another positive movement to encourage more children they were going to add an extra 7,000 yen for children under three years of age.
But under the cover of needing money for earthquake reconstruction the opposition party the LDP (the former ruling party of Japan for over 50 years) have stripped the extra funding for families from annual budget even though it had already passed the onto the next house. This is the only time in Japanese history that a bill has passed onto the next house only to be withdrawn. Not happy with stripping money from families the LDP want to go a step further and kill the family allowance bill entirely.
So why does the LDP want to discourage families from having babies? Their official reason is Japan is broke and can’t afford it but how can Japan afford to have less babies? The falling birthrate is a real threat to Japan’s future! To have a valid economy a nation has to have workers not just old people! This type of shoot-your-self-in-the-foot action is so typical in Japan it shouldn’t be surprising yet that doesn’t make it any less infuriating.
Gaijinass 
Well said. Perhaps Japan should stop playing baby games with the United states and cash in some of those 855 billion worth of US treasuries. That would help with reconstruction and it wouldn’t further doom the country. Certain people have been saying this for years: The paramount threat facing Japans existence is the lack of children.
It’s not merely a financial problem though. There also seems to be a profound sociological divide between Japanese men and women. A lot of the Japanese guys i know treat their wives and girlfriends with a kind of vague indifference, and Japanese women are becoming increasingly frustrated with it.
For the price of airfare I am willing to come over there and do my very best to help them with that. No strings attached, just your basic stud service, and will include their first real orgasm in the package. 😛
Oh, you’re late.
I know a handful of gentlemen that have dispensing orgasms here for quite some time.
There are a lot of studs, Japanese and non-Japanese, going around playing clean-up hitter with all the undersatisfied ladies here mainly because a lot of Japanese men are either shy, socially-awkward, hiki-komori, work-obsessed or, well, a plethora of other reasons we could speculate on. This deserves its own post.
Women are baby making machines. That is why they exist, or it is 99% of all womens.
I believe the LDP government quote was women should get busy and start popping out babies, “because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head.” A statement from the 50s you ask? Try 2007.