Abe Funds Japan’s Last-Chance Saloon to End Births Drop
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Over coffee and cake in a rural cafe in Kochi prefecture, Hideyuki Tanaka, 40, plucked up the courage to speak with Eri, 14 years his junior.
A pianist provided the ambience for the afternoon gathering of 18 singles, arranged by local government cupids, that led to wedding bells in June last year for Tanaka who’d “almost given up hope of getting married.”