The birth rate in Japan is so low that its biggest city’s government is going to desperate measures to help couples find love.
The Tokyo metropolitan government’s latest out-of-the-box idea is to play Cupid by launching a dating app, and it has already allocated $1.28 million to debut it by the end of the summer, Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun reported. Unlike other dating services, the government-sponsored project has strict measures in place to address a serious concern for people searching for love online: authenticity.
