The nursing care industry is struggling due to intensifying competition, chronic manpower shortages and cuts in care service prices set under the country's nursing care insurance system.

What a mess here with nursing & daycare, I usually say, do you wanna grow old here? Need to also add do you wanna be born here.............

Need to also add do you wanna be born here.............

I read about the fentanyl crisis plaguing N. America right now, and how teenagers are going to parties on the weekend, doing what they think is some cocaine, and dying because it's laced with fentanyl.

I haven't heard even a single case of this in Japan. You rarely hear of teenagers doing any drugs in Japan, and when you do, it's often only marijuana (which I personally don't even consider a drug).

Kids have school stress here, but not drug pressure. I prefer to raise my kids here.

chronic manpower shortages

one word: immigration