Thing it is a choice all women have to make. US or Japan. As you go past late 20s the clock is ticking. You basically need 2-3 years per kid to write off your c

Thing it is a choice all women have to make. US or Japan. As you go past late 20s the clock is ticking. You basically need 2-3 years per kid to write off your career(so about 6 years for replacement rate). Unless you are making enough to hire full time help or have your parent works as that full time help for free. Since me and wife neither of the two applied(well we could hire help but we both kinda want kids to grow up raised by a parent instead of a nanny) Japan is at the point where half measures like subsidized daycare are long past. They need to literally pay people to have kids at this point. Give massive tax credits for kids etc. Workforce itself is not that big deal. Japan unlike US is VERY easy to bring qualified people to work. Trivial really none of the US tech visa nonsense. Hire a guy, he is in the office month later. We have people from Netherland, Uruguay, Canada, Belgium etc. Tokyo is now trivial to live in with zero Japanese language ability or to find work as a qualified person. The pay is low by US standards though.