Poester comments

I don't understand how simply using a bigger and bigger stick to try to beat the young men into line, will do Japan any good.

I see it all over the place even here, completely bald faced insults and shaming language, from the usual suspects. It's all stick and no carrot. If you want people to marry you need to make it attractive, for both parties, not just one, instead of a 50/50 lottery where benefits are ephemeral and obligations a solid as stone, and enforced by the iron fist of the state.

I'm glad that men are starting to toss off their traditional gender rolls of sacrificial work horse. Working for themselves and no longer being forced to work themselves into an early heart attack for a female that is as likely as not to appreciate any of it. I suspect that the next step for the state in response to the decreased revenue from these men will be a bachelor tax, which will of course never be applied in a gender neutral way.

The future of the "race" or culture is not our concern. The problem is too big for us little people, and the powers that be have already set the current state of affairs in motion for better or worse, they have no intention of fixing something that has already been "fixed".