Japan's daycare nightmare

Parents, 

Here's yet another article on the horrors of finding daycare in Tokyo. Similar to recent news about how poorly ranked American maternity leave time is globally (right up there with Papua New Guinea), competition for a slot in daycare in Tokyo can lead to extremely stressful quests. It is a vicious cycle, as fiscal priority goes to the elderly, thus leaving gaps in family care and less and less investment in future generations.

I don't want to push the point too much, but I have read somewhere else about how the entitlements that were set up for the baby boomers have now shifted with them to support them in old age at the expense of the current (and future) generations.

Dad