World NEWS: Starting April 2021, Japanese couples can
receive about $5,600 (¥600,000) to help them start their lives as newlyweds.
The grant is from Japan’s newlywed support program available in some
municipalities across the country.
The program is meant to boost Japan’s low birth rate,
credited to less and later marriages. The country’s already sluggish birth rate
fell to record lows in 2019.
The number of children born last year was 865,000, down from
about 2.7 million in the late 1940s, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor
and Welfare.
To be eligible for the newlywed support program “both husband
and wife will have to be under age 40 as of the registered date of marriage and
have a combined income of less than ¥5.4 million (about $51,200),” Kyodo
reports.
Via QuickTake
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