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Japan Is Paying People to Download Dating Apps as Birth Rate Crisis Deepens

todayApril 24, 2026

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Japan’s birth rate crisis has reached a whole new level

In Kochi Prefecture, the government is now offering people around €106… just to download a dating app in hopes of finding a romantic partner.

Entire regions are facing population collapse, with some rural areas expected to lose more than half their residents within a single generation

 

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Fewer people dating means fewer relationships and fewer births… and now governments are stepping in to try and reverse it.

Do you think this would actually work though?

Written by: Julia Cassar