A Japanese town is paying couples up to £4,600 to have a large family in an effort to counter the nation's declining birth rate and ageing population.
Nagi, which is about 110 miles from Hiroshima, offers parents cash bonuses for each child they have. The size of the amount increases with each subsequent child.
Across Japan, there is a major problem of a rapidly ageing population combined with a plummeting birth rate.
Strict rules in Japan make permanently emigrating to the country incredibly difficult, although the Government is currently seeking to amend the law.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is also considering loosening rules to allow foreign workers move for longer fixed periods to make up for the chronic shortage of manpower.
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Child care in Japanese cities is expensive and difficult to find. Instead of struggling, the couple decided to move to Nagi - where Katsunori grew up.
He told CNN: 'When people are in their 20s and 30s, they can't really afford to live in a bigger space in a city. We knew that if we wanted to have more kids, we couldn't do it there.'
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Officials in the area are trying to encourage more families to relocate.
Families can get subsidised housing, school allowances and even reduced nursery costs.
In January 2018, Japan had 2.5 million foreign residents, which has increased by 7.5 per cent over the previous 12 months - approximately two per cent of population.
Over the same period, the number of native Japanese has fallen by about 0.3 per cent - the nine straight year.
Earlier this year, Japan's foreign minister Taro Kono told the World Economic Forum which was meeting in Hanoi: 'We cannot sustain our society like that. We are opening up our country. We are opening up our labor market to foreign countries. We are now trying to come up with a new work permit policy so I think everyone shall be welcome in Japan if they are willing to assimilate into Japanese society.'
Japan has traditionally resisted accepting migrant workers, at times easing such restrictions but then re-imposing them during economic downturns. Many Japanese are uncomfortable with outsiders who might not speak their language or conform to expectations for how to behave.
Still, there are millions of foreigners living in Japan, including those who work in technical training-related programs or labor-short industries such as restaurants, construction and elder care.
The country has gradually been loosening restrictions to enable families to hire domestic help. It also has short programs to bring in foreign nurses from Indonesia and other countries. But language requirements have made long-term employment in such jobs difficult.
Kono cited sports stars including tennis sensation Naomi Osaka, the daughter of a Japanese mother and a Haitian father, as an example of the benefits of welcoming outsiders. Osaka, who was born in Japan but raised in the United States, is being lauded by Japanese as the first from the country to win a Grand Slam singles tennis title.
He added: 'It's good to have diversity. It's good to have an open policy.'
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