In a significant policy shift to tackle Japan's severe decline in birth rates, the Japanese government has offered free college tuition to families with three or more children starting the 2025 academic year. This move is a part of the broader "Children's Future Strategy," which Prime Minister Fumio...
People aren't not having kids here because of university. Fix work-life balance and daycare access in the bigger cities if you want more kids. Better, try to incentivize spreading out from Tokyo and revive the old towns out there. Edit: also, stagnant wages and inflation
Lol, this kind of means-tested garbage won't accomplish anything for young people on the fence about having kids. At most it'll let some older people go back to school for free.