The Japanese Government aims to start a ‘dating app’ which will be called ‘Tokyo Futari Story’ as birth rates continue to drop in the country having reached their lowest level in 2023. Tokyo is also working very hard to increase the birth rate by offering many incentives like monetary support for families, affordable child care centers, and so on.
This is where the Japanese government is to release a new dating application to address this issue These are hat short Make these title short “Japan releases ‘Tokyo Futari Story’ app to increase birth rate. ”
How can I register for a dating app?
Before being allowed to use the dating app, a user is required to sign a letter affirming readiness to marry and produce documents that show that the person is not married or in a civil partnership.
Other requirements include; tax certificate slip that will certify their annual income. A Tokyo government official tasked with the new app said, “We discovered that seven out of ten people who wished to get married are not actively seeking a partner through events or applications,” as cited by Japan Times He went on to say, “We want to take those people and give them a little nudge to find one.
To increase the low national birth rate, the Japanese Government is employing unique initiatives. It is planned to release its so-called ‘dating app’ called ‘Tokyo Futari Story’ this summer of the same year according to Japan Times. As labor shortages intensify, Kishida’s government pursues policies designed to encourage more births; some of those measures are financial support for families with children, easy access to child care, parental leave, and so on.
As for Japan, it is important to notice that the birth rate reached historical minimum in 2023. Hence, matchmaking events are hardly unexpected, although it is rather strange for a government to develop an app.
Since late 2023, the Tokyo government app has been a trial run for the free use of an app. Regarding this dating app, the audience of social media was powerful to respond with a great deal of anticlimax.
From Japan Times, one user was quoted saying, “This is something that the government should not be doing with our money?”>User 4 also showed an interest with a focus on the issue of safety over fraud, On his Twitter page, X, CEO of Tesla Company and an entrepreneur worth billions of dollars, said, “I am happy that the government of Japan has woken up to the importance of this issue. If drastic measures are not taken, Japan like many other countries will be out of existence!!”
The birth rate is the number of births in a given year per thousand people while the death rate is the number of deaths of per thousand people in the same year.
Birth rate vs death rate
Thus, mortality rate is very high compared to the birth rate, as the number of dependents is considerably high in the earthquake-sensitive country. The mortality rate in Japan even exceeded the birth rate by over two times last year. Thus for the eighth year consecutively, the initial government numbers revealed that the births have declined to 7, 58, 631 which is a decline by 5. 1%.
At the same time, in 2023 the number of deaths was registered at the level of 1 590 503, number if which is 209. And it increases the rates of infant mortality 7% higher than the birth rates.
