How to deal with depopulation in rural areas? This question has been haunting Japanese regional governments for decades now.
Above all, not only do they need to encourage the people who move away to major urban centers for work to return, they really need to target younger people with families. Because above all, these areas need young people.
The central government's policy when it comes to urgent matters is typically to launch a PR campaign -- in terms of the climate crisis, it's mostly about promoting the UN SDGs -- or throw money at it.
For the issue of depopulation, they have resorted ...
