Called "Tokyo Futari Story," the City Hall's new initiative is just that: an effort to create couples, "futari," in a country where it is increasingly common to be "hitori," or alone.

Tokyo City Hall is developing a unique dating app, Tokyo Futari Story, to encourage residents to consider marriage and parenthood and tackle the country’s initiative of increasing population after decades of decline. The app’s name derives from ...

Tokyo City Hall is developing a dating app as the country’s birth rate is plummeting to an all-time low. View on euronews

Called “Tokyo Futari Story,” the city hall’s new site is just that: An effort to create couples, “futari,” in a country where it is increasingly common to be “hitori,” or alone.

A Tokyo City Hall site offering counsel and general info for potential lovebirds is already online, and a dating app is in development for later this year.

Sky News host Caleb Bond discusses a dating app developed by Tokyo City Hall that will encourage Japanese people to have children to combat the country’s low fertility rate.