Current concerns: Available places in Tokyo wards’ childcare facilities continue to be oversubscribed due to burgeoning demand

The article below highlights the plight of working parents seeking quality childcare. Setagaya ward's available childcare spots was oversubscribed by more than double. Some of Tokyo's wards are seeing sharp population growth. To cope, some wards like Minato ward have been "operating 12 “urgent provisional nursery facilities” for the last 10 years, utilizing unused primary…