The UK has had a loneliness minister for years at this point.
I’ma keep it real with you Japan’s 58th prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, this will not help overturn Japan’s declining birthrate
This is very sad, I can’t imagine social alienation being so widespread that it needs its own government office to handle it
It could also be that social alienation is about just as bad where you live, except the government just doesn’t feel like addressing it.
Yeah the ‘Japan is sad and lonely’ trope always seemed suspect to me… Like if I watch japanese yt channels or even westerners who are in japan that just doesn’t seem to be the norm or at least not any more normal than everywhere else.
“Japan so wacky!” gets clicks, “Japan is pretty normal in a lot of respects” does not.
In that they have a guy looking into they are technically doing better than us here
