^^^^^Korea is damn near exactly the same way.

It's not just the overworking. People don't want to get married because they see it as a dip in their standard of living. Women want a man who can provide for them like their fathers, but men can't make that much money in today's economy. And men want a woman who will cook and clean and take care of them like mom does, but the women aren't interested in doing that. So it leads to the whole "Parasite Singles" phenomena where kids in their late 20s still live at home with mom and dad and sponge off of them. That's also why love hotels are so popular; if you live with the 'rents, you've gotta screw somewhere.

Japan needs to open itself up more to immigrants. And it needs to start accepting them as Japanese, or it's basically screwed as a country.

What if you are Japanese American, would your kid still be considered Japanese or half Japanese?

Oh if anyone wants to DISPOSE of some babies, my services are at hand. I go all the way from second trimester to toddler.

Why let them go to waste, when I can be going hungry?

As for the good ol US of A the birth rates have been declining amongst all populations except immigrants. If it was not for immigration we would be having the same "encouragements" here... it is a first world phenom. We just let more immigrants in than anyone else to make up for it.