Japan's real concern here is depopulation, as the article later notes. Just last year, The Guardian covered ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/bab

Japan's real concern here is depopulation, as the article later notes. Just last year, The Guardian covered ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/baby-boomtown-does-nagi-hold-the-secret-to-repopulating-japan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/baby-boomtown-... ) a Japanese town which was sustaining 2X the Japanese national birth rate. (The Guardian is a very pleasant source of news. Beyond that, it's best to keep your expectations low.) One wonders just how dire the problem would need to become, before the Japanese government would resort to measures which had a real-world history of actually working.