So, erm, once one has produced these little bundles of joy and got ones hands on the dirty money as a Koei Tecmo employee is one required to do anything else with the three (that's where the monies at) children?

Time to move to japan...

WHAT

I'll mate with their women for cash. I'd even give 'em a discount, I'm so generous.

I love the Japanese so much...every time I read about them, they're doing something crazy.

Well their population is on negative growth, Ive heard a lot of companies are forcing people to spend more hours at home instead of working in hopes more procreation will take place.

Japanese men need to get busy. I'd offer to go over there and help the ladies out but I doubt they want to muck up their gene pool with genes of non-Japanese decent.

However, if they just want half Japanese babies, tell me where to sign up. I'll go pimp myself out of the good of Japan. And because I'm so nice, I'll let the ladies keep the money to help raise the baby in exchange for not pursuing me for child support :p.

I think that the Japanese men need to be a little more strong in their pursuit of making babies. Everyone's too concerned with their jobs and doign well for the company.

Japan ins underpopulated? where the hell did they all go?

Aside from the typical "oh wow let me join in" comment I could make...it's remarkable that they're going to that lengths.

And now for the typical male comment:

Any bonus if we impregnate more than one woman/manage to father more than three children? :3

Japan has an aging population, and a low birth rate. Pretty soon there will be no one left (to make any cool stuff we love), because the ladies want romance and prefer host clubs to get what they need, and the men are very unromantic and somewhat scared to learn new tricks to meet women half way (and probably resort to the love hotels, if not hentai dolls, who don't talk back, go figure). For all their creativity and ecomonic might, its a pretty sad situation.

Thing is, the japan government, bites its nose off despite its face. What they don't tell you about, is their strict non international adoption policies, which means you can't adopt a child of any other race or country, but their own (or something to that degree. On top of that, when they are potentially paying you to breed, that's more than likely with other japanese citizens, something that's less likely to happen. They'd never tell you that though, eh Koei Tecmo?

Perhaps if japan had a better system, on adoption and immigration, their birth rate might improve, because the way things are going, they'll die out in a few decades. Currently, its all about keeping their bloodlines pure, really. Yeah, japan, good luck with that.

Sperm banks might help, but single mothers in japan would also be frowned upon, I guess. Jeez, they can't win either way.

Don't come knocking for our supposedly inferior western sperm, when japan can no longer make any. Jim might help you though, cause he's a sucker that will do anything for a DW game. Lol.

They are just doing their part to make sure they have a market to sell to in the future. Prosperity actually requires people to make stuff and sell stuff to, you know, like those Wallmart people Jim gets so worked up about.

This is not even so much about sex, represson or anything like that. After all, you can not find a place more booming in population than the Middle East, who's people are perhaps the most sexually repressed on the planet. It is about cost. The places where it costs the most to raise kids, like Japan, Italy, Germany, and most of Western Europe, are the places that have the lowest birthrates of in the world.

This story made my day.

Yeah. It's been a problem in the rural areas of Japan for a while now. Kids grow up and want to move to the city. Then, smaller towns die out because nobody is having children there. The cities are overcrowded and busy, so it's extremely difficult, both spatially and financially, to have children. All Asian overpopulation stereotypes aside, it's a serious problem -- with serious consequences. The fact that these companies are paying directly for children being born seems ridiculous by Western standards. Think about maternity/paternity leave in the States. It seems ridiculous to cultures that parents, especially mothers, return to work within days after labor.

sex for money... where have I heard this before?

Perhaps Tecmo should throw in free costumes so that their female employees and their male employees can dress up like Dead or Alive girls.



Suddenly, lots of babies!

My kid's only one year and a few months is it too late to cash in on his birth? Also, sorry Japan, but $1,000 isn't going to cover the cost of raising that kid so unless you're already preggers its not really worth it.

I like this. We need to see more news posts like this, on Japan beyond games, so everyone can see it has problems, just like anywhere else.

I can't imagine that this will actually convince somebody to have kids; rather, it's more of a bonus for people who were already planning.

Hey, maybe while they're at it they can convince their employees to stop making games and convert their workspaces into steel mills.

Having one child for $1000 isn't as interesting as having three for $23,000. Now that's a dilemma.