Society
Singapore's Baby Package Reignites Japan's Fertility Debate
Singapore's PM unveiled a family-support push — a flat ~S$1,000 'Baby Gift' per birth plus a package totaling nearly S$70,000 by age 17 — that spread in Japan as 'a flat ~10 million yen per child.' Arriving alongside a survey showing 35% of unmarried young Japanese have no intention to marry, it split reactions between distrust of Japan's fiscal will (and fear the money would be diverted to foreigners) and a colder analysis that cash alone can't fix a society where staying single is comfortable.