Tokyo
This is one of the flagship measures of the new Prime Minister of Japan.
In his first policy speech to the Diet on Monday, Yoshihide Suga reiterated his pledge to reimburse infertility treatments, for women as well as for men, in an effort to stimulate the collapsing demographics in the country.
Time is running out: after a slight rise in the fertility rate to 1.45 children per woman in 2015, it fell again to reach 1.36 in 2019. Last year, Japan fell for the first time from its modern history below 900,000 births.
In 2020 and 2021, as the Covid-19 has turned the Japanese into masked citizens who avoid unnecessary contact, the numbers will be cataclysmic.
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In vitro births in Japan represent a high ratio compared to similar countries (1 in 16, against 1 in 30 in France for example).
The Prime Minister's decision is therefore not anecdotal.
It is part of an effort
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