Japan is finally responding to their demographic crisis and it is not immigration. The new strategy to promote population growth through fertility centers around the nuclear family, subsidizing birth through a variety of programs. The new family policy is clearly based on Steve Sailer’s Affordable Family Formation strategy for both social and political stability in the United States, as well as the fertility and social support policies devised by Hungarian leader Victor Orban.

Japan has drawn up a draft plan designed to reverse the country’s falling birthrate, which includes boosting financial support for child-rearing households…

One proposal calls for removing the upper income cap for monthly cash payments to parents and extending the payment period, which currently ends when children reach 15, until they graduate from high school.

The government would increase the allowance for each child for parents with at least three children.

Officials said they will study ways to further increase financial support for childbirth, such as considering public health insurance coverage.

The government also plans to implement measures to ease the financial burden of paying for children’s higher education…

Officials also aim to raise benefits for childcare leave so that a family’s disposable would not change for up to four weeks even if both parents take leave.

Japan Unveils Draft Measures To Reverse Falling Birthrate, by Saori Yamamoto, NHK, June 2, 2023

As usual with Japan, the ruling class is moving slowly, which is its reputation, sometimes for the better, other times for the worse. One benefit of moving slowly, even in emergencies, is that it avoids the negative impact of ill-considered policy. The West generally moves too quickly, usually ending up with failed policies, such as immigration and trannyism.

The government presented the package of measures to a panel of experts on Thursday…

The government plans to finalize the package by the end of this month, after discussion with the ruling coalition parties.

And women appear to be very supportive. They find family life to be desirable, rather than chasing the daily grind as an Office Lady at some faceless corporation.

Tokuchi Hiroko and her husband are raising 3 children, from a two-year-old to an elementary school second grader. They currently receive child-rearing benefits for all three children.

If the child-rearing benefits are increased according to the government’s plan, the family will receive more for their third child, as well as benefits for all of their children until they finish high school.

“I am grateful for the plan. The financial burden for education has been heavy for us since we have three kids,” Tokuchi said.

That reaction suggests that the Japanese government should move more quickly, not only to solve the increasingly dire demographic decline, but that this policy could ensure the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) rule for a generation. Japanese voters are highly loyal, and gratitude is something that motivates Japanese voters.

The LDP has relied to this day on the vote of gerrymandered districts dominated by independent land-owning farmers long loyal to the LDP, but that population is declining the most precipitously and gaining the suburban and urban family vote is the future.

The Left in Japan is enraged, and the main open-borders and social radical party, the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), the current party of younger urban dwellers, considers this an attempt to steal their voters, and they have decided to decry this policy on budgetary principles, the weakest of political arguments in Japan. The CDP is increasingly unpopular for their support for Globohomo and immigration, so the new LDP Sailer Strategy could finish the CDP off as a political party.

The opposition Constitutional Democratic Party’s Diet affairs chief Azumi Jun criticized the government for making a “mockery” of voters by proposing benefits without saying how they will be funded.

“They are presenting rosy pictures without showing how they can secure as much as 3.5 trillion yen. That’s being kind of dishonest with voters,” Azumi said.

Since the Meiji Restoration and leading up to the Second World War and for decades afterward, Japan was mostly concerned with overpopulation, and were fooled by the Western Left’s long obsession with too many humans, so Japan must reverse decades of failed population policy going back almost 100 years. Many Americans forget that after the Meiji Restoration, Japan was a population exporter, mostly to the United States and then Brazil, as well as other South American nations.

Solving the demographic collapse was one of two policy goals of the Abe Shogunate, the other being military and political independence from the United States. One down, just the Bomb to go.