Assignment for Japan’s Growth Strategy
By the year 2020, Japan’s economy will be mostly pulled out of stagnation as a successful outcome of “Abenomics”. However, there exist some social problems that can cause the economics trouble and impede the revitalization of Japan. Foremost among them are declining birth and marriage rate, aging population, non-sustainable resources. In this essay, I would recommend the “Growth Strategy” which I believe could solve the economic troubles. The first strategy is called the family planning. According to one research on the Bloomberg, Japan’s birth rate and marriage rate are among the lowest of the world with 7.31 births per year per 1000 people and 5.8 marriages per year per 1000 people. These figures are predicted to fall even more, if the birth rate of decrease over the past few years in continued, it will reach zero by 2017. The family planning focuses on increasing the birth rate in each family. However, we cannot expect the working couples have children and still worry about the works and finance ability. In Japan, most married women tend to manage the finance of family and take care of both their own and husband’s parents. This could be the obstacles for career women because they cannot at the same time fulfill the responsibility of wives and focus on their work. Besides, Japan’s societal support for working mother is low, so most women either avoid having children or leave the work force. Therefore, the family plan could be divided into two subtopics; one is to support working mother with a better policy such as increasing the number of child-care facilities to help parents rear their children with ease while continuing to work; the other one is to encourage having more than two children in each family with the assurance that the government will pay for their children’s education. The second strategy is to increase the work force and control immigrations. As a result of falling birth rates and improved public health...