Früher gab es in Japan einen Mangel an Kinderbetreuungsangeboten. Doch seit Beginn der Förderung stehen Kindertagesstätten vor Rekordinsolvenzen

When you get further into the article, one of the reasons for the decline of profits at the struggling nursery schools was due to, ‚unable to hire enough staff‘, forcing them to reduce the amount of children they can supervise.

AKA: they refused to raise wages during the shortage thinking that they could wait it out, and they shot themselves in the foot… turns out everyone needs a livable wage nowadays.