{"id":24501,"date":"2020-11-06T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T05:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/06\/japan-to-help-cover-ivf-costs-in-attempt-to-avert-demographic-crisis"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T05:02:55","slug":"japan-to-help-cover-ivf-costs-in-attempt-to-avert-demographic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24501","title":{"rendered":"Japan to help cover IVF costs in attempt to avert demographic crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birth rate remains stubbornly low despite series of government initiatives encouraging couples to have bigger families<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s new prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/yoshihide-suga-the-farmers-son-set-to-be-japans-next-pm\">Yoshihide Suga<\/a>, has given hope to couples struggling to conceive with a pledge to cover expensive fertility treatments with health insurance, but experts warn the change will do little to avert a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/27\/japan-shrinking-as-birthrate-falls-to-lowest-level-in-history\">demographic crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Suga, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/14\/yoshihide-suga-to-be-japan-prime-minister-after-winning-party-vote\">took office<\/a> in September, identified depopulation as a major challenge for Japan during his campaign to succeed Shinzo Abe as PM and repeated his determination to tackle the low birth rate during his first policy speech in parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/06\/japan-to-help-cover-ivf-costs-in-attempt-to-avert-demographic-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth rate remains stubbornly low despite series of government initiatives encouraging couples to have bigger familiesJapan\u2019s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has given hope to couples struggling to conceive with a pledge to cover expensive fertilit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24502,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24501\/revisions\/24502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}