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Japan's government is going to Cupid in an attempt to more couples to have babies. The country one of the lowest birth rates in the world and politicians are to novel methods to people to add to the population. One of these methods is local authorities as matchmakers. Japan's national government will any local government effort at speed dating, online matchmaking and other ways to couples to get together and start families. The draft recommendations for intensive efforts over the next five years. The report says Japan a "critical situation" in which the dwindling number of children could cause serious social problems for the country.

One reason the government has for Japan's falling birth rate is the rising cost of raising children. The government hopes to this with a variety of measures. These include plans to access to free nursery care, special centres for people undergoing fertility treatment, and a target to the number of fathers paternity leave after their baby born to 80 per cent by the year 2020. There also plans to greater support for families with three or more children. By 2060, nearly 40 per cent of Japan’s population will be aged over 65. The over-65s already 25 per cent of the population. The birth rate has steadily from 4.54 children per mother in 1947 to just 1.42 in 2014.