Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, unveiling a plan to address the acute shortage of day-care facilities for children in the capital. (NHK)
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The metropolitan government will pay the rent for five years for new nurseries in vacant houses or buildings and will also subsidize operators who rent apartments to their childcare workers.
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thepersoniamnow
LOL! Splashing water on the full on fire hoping it will go out? Thanks a lot for the abandoned buildings. I'm sure it will make a big difference for all the people with no daycare for their children.
borscht
Sounds like a plan; I fully expect the nursery school owners to revamp the abandoned houses or buildings to bring them up to code (who will pay?) and to meet the legal requirements for kindergartens etc. The help on rent for lowly paid childcare workers is good - not as good as paying them more but if the subsidy is more than half the rent, that's similar.
TrevorPeace
Let's see how this turns out, before condemning it. As a strategy, it will take some time to evolve, but having read far too much about the dearth of day-care facilities in Japan, I can only say she might have a decent idea, and it's only fair to see if it works out. The part I like about it is the subsidization of apartment rents for the childcare workers, who are certainly underpaid. Koike can't legislate their wages, but she can reduce the largest part of their living expenses.
Aly Rustom
I agree. Its better than doing nothing at all. Lets wait and see what happens