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Cake day: December 26th, 2023

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  • The ¥50 thing is barely satire.

    There were about four different subsidies that we thought we qualified for after having our son. In the end, Japan only gave us one of them. ¥70,000, which amounts to maybe a month and a half of groceries just for him.

    There are all these programs to get money and social benefits for having children and each one of them has some weird condition that invalidates most couples from receiving it.

    They want more Japanese to have children, but they aren’t doing what is necessary to convince childless couples to want to invest in having even one child.