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Moving back to Japan is particularly not appealing anyway, Japan is having a severe labor shortage due to rabidly aging population.

And 2.2B is surely not enough to persuade firms anyway on national scale, might work on targeted industry however.



Maybe an attempt to get some of the 500k+ hikikomori back into the workforce could be made. A majority are working age men.


I don't think this is likely. It's a societal problem with no real fix. If people don't feel like they're part of society then the government is unlikely to be able to fix it. It becomes even harder when those people are more or less okay with what their life is like.




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