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Well the important thing is to keep immigration next to impossible.
Japan’s public debt is more than double its annual economic output, by far the heaviest burden in the industrialized world.

I know running a deficit and having a substantial amount of debt is par for the course among most developed economies, but that's still crazy. Keep in mind, that Japan also has a declining population and said population is likely to be reduced substantially over time, which will put further pressure on their economic output.
Japan's economy seems like a potential disaster waiting to happen.

Suzuki reiterated the government’s aim to achieve an annual budget surplus — excluding new bond sales and debt-servicing costs — in the fiscal year to March 2026. The government, however, has missed budget-balancing targets for a decade.

So there is some desire to fix the issue, but if they've consistently missed their budget-balancing targets, achieving a surplus by 2026 might be wishful thinking. >

I moved to Japan and took a teaching job. After 5 years of struggling to get ahead on roughly $15/hr, and dealing the stress of never knowing if my contract would be renewed each year, I called it quits. Average Japanese have it worse, with minimum wage being under $10/hr. If Japan were serious about wanting people to have more kids, then perhaps it's time to take them off starvation wages. >

They seriously want people to have more kids... they're just not willing to do anything to make it happen beyond promoting drinking in the hopes of making more 'oops' babies.
It's basically the same problem conservatives have had forever - they want things to happen, but they're not willing to make any positive changes to facilitate those things happening. >

it's okay because all adjacent country by japan is going to childless hell too. no one want to come japan. it means no immigrant pressures.