Shock for the Secret Seven. It’s a kid’s book that was given to me by my godfather. It was the book that made me fall in love with reading.

It’s too expensive to have a kid in Japan. There aren’t enough childcare to take care of the kids so one parent usually ends up staying home, making household income low.

Japan can’t fix this by having bandage solutions like paying couples to have children, or subsidizing deliveries or schools. Yes, they help, but only in the short term. Prospective parents will think about long term prospects and opportunity cost in having kids. Japan has change the whole system to make it work for couples to have kids.

That’s great! I was actually surprised with the amount of responses this got but it’s really opened me to a lot of great content on YouTube. I’ve been coming back to this too and trying a bunch of recommendations. 😊

Will do! Thanks!

Filipino living in Singapore, married to a Japanese:

Philippines - Facebook Messenger (they love Facebook there) Singapore - WhatsApp (everyone uses it here, especially businesses, so it’s hard not to have it installed) Japan - Line (I think it’s because of the stickers and emojis?)

Love Wristwatch Revival. Almost makes me want to learn watchmaking.