Why does Japan still have a declining/low birth rate, even though the Japanese goverment has enacted several nation-wide policies to tackle the problem?

Question

Why does Japan still have a declining/low birth rate, even though the Japanese goverment has enacted several nation-wide policies to tackle the problem?

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Answer 1

My knowledge has to do with South Korea but their problem is even worse than in Japan.

The programs the government passes that try to alleviate the problem are either tackling the wrong problem or is just plain insufficient. In the cities, nobody young enough to have kids can afford to own. The tiny bit they get from the government isn’t nearly enough to change that. Nobody wants to try to raise a family of four or more in some tiny one bedroom.