If Albania is struggling to keep its young people in their homeland, in Japan they give money to young people to leave the capital Tokyo. The Japanese government will give 1 million Yen to each young person who decides to leave. This amount consists of 7600 dollars.
If they gave this amount to young people in Albania to leave Tirana, I'm sure that with that money they would pay for the boat to go to England and try to create a new life on the island. But the situation in Japan is different and this parallelism is surreal.
This decision by the Japanese government aims to reduce the overpopulation of the capital and the demographic decline in other regions of Japan. Thus, relocating families will be given $7,600 per child as they move from overcrowded Tokyo to municipalities outside the city and surrounding prefectures.
Half of the money will be provided by the government and the other half by local municipalities. Those who receive the money must stay in the suburbs for a minimum of five years or else have to pay the money back to the state. The government hopes that 10,000 people will have moved from Tokyo to rural areas by 2027.
Japan's declining population, aging population and the migration of young people to the capital have dramatically hit regions beyond Tokyo, Osaka and a handful of other major cities. Tokyo is the most populous capital city in the world, with a population of nearly 14 million people.