Candidate For Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Know What His Country Needs: Women And More Births

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JAKARTA - Candidate for Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga promised insurance that will cover the cost of fertility treatment. The insurance was promised as an implementation of its program to increase the birth rate of Japanese citizens.

Suga realizes that humans are the potential for a nation. Japan clearly knows how to make use of its human resources. And the high cost of fertility treatment is also recognized by Suga as an obstacle that hinders efforts to increase the birth rate.

Suga believes that insurance for fertility treatment is a long-term solution to increasing child birth rates. Suga also promised to create an environment where women can maintain their health so that they can increase their active role in society.

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- 菅 義 偉 (@sugawitter) September 11, 2019

"To support households who want to give birth widely, we will make fertility treatment covered by insurance," said Suga, quoted by Reuters, Tuesday, September 8.

What Suga said was in line with former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policy of increasing the role of women in politics and the economy, a policy he called "womenomics". Unfortunately, womenonics during Abe's time actually widened the gender gap in Japan.

Not to mention, the birth rate in Sakura Country reached a record low last year. The authorities even noted that the Japanese population is dominated by parents with a decreasing number of births. This condition is defined as a national crisis.

Later, Suga wants to change this after being appointed as PM. Even so, Suga still maintains the useful policies of the Abe government, starting in the economic sector to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.