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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Actually, it has been identified as one of the bigger issues. Lack of childcare options means one parent needs to stay home, means one income, means lots of women tend to just work a few years in office exclusively to find a good husband and then drop out of everything (cue the incel population who understands that if they can't have a huge income, they might never get laid). Also, single income participates in the terrible work culture where staying at one company forever is the better option because people who leave get burned everywhere. And this lifestyle, this work identity, this lack of prospectives, is a big part of why young people are losing hope fast. This vicious cycle has been pretty well known forever, and childcare has been recognized as a major starter of it for a while.

Housing in Japan is often a culture of 3 generations living in the same home, single income participates in that too, but there are housing options - Japan has a notoriously high number of empty homes, abandoned and falling apart; we don't have any perspective right now on what direction this could go if the demographics started improving. I don't think I've heard anyone ever bring up that education had any particular problem, as far as I can tell they get what they need. In all of those fields there's probably a bunch of issues about outdated standards everywhere, but there's no big issue about entire spans of population dropping out of education or housing or feeding.