日本国家儿童资助中心计划与日本博彩业联盟，其目的是鼓励年轻人结婚生子，向他们提供抚养孩子的部分资金支持。
日本的国家经济部门计划为此项目联盟提供2.2万亿日元的资金支持。
过去二十年，日本的出生率持续下降，加上人口老龄化严重，导致了日本出现老年人无保障，国家长期财政赤字等一系列社会问题。日本政府在人口问题上面临很大压力，鼓励年轻夫妇生儿育女是一项重要政策。
国家儿童资助中心与日本博彩行业联盟，已经吸引了相关行业投资者的注意力，此项联盟计划的受益者包括，如童装，婴儿用品和私立教育机构的决策者。
主题公园运营商，任天堂和其他玩具、视频游戏制造商也是其中的收益者。
然而，日本证券某分析师指出，投资者需要注意，政府突然制定出慷慨的资金福利措施，但如果政府给儿童补贴的资金是汇到父亲的银行账户，那么，这笔儿童补贴很可能成博彩业“隐形”的奖金。
日本博彩业可以蓬勃发展，很大程度上是因为该行业处在法律的灰色地带。
其他分析师质疑博彩行业为儿童提供福利补贴的建议。由社会和经济研究所研究发现，仅有略超过一半的日本人认同此想法。
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Japan’s gambling industry is expected to be an unlikely beneficiary of a national child subsidy scheme, which aims to shower parents with cash and encourage young couples to start families.
Several sectors of the Japanese economy are tipped to benefit from the Y2.2 trillion programme.
The past two decades have witnessed relentless declines in the Japanese birth rate, prompting a range of demographic concerns, from a lack of elderly care provision to long-term fiscal catastrophe.
The sectors associated with the child subsidy scheme that have already attracted investors’ attention include obvious beneficiaries, such as makers of children’s clothes, baby goods and private educational establishments.
Theme park operators, Nintendo and other toy and videogame makers also appear in the “benefit basket” of stocks .
However, in a note to investors, Daiwa Securities analysts also point out the reality of what happens when governments suddenly make generous cash payments, especially if the subsidy money is paid into the father’s bank account. Because the money is not disbursed in the form of vouchers, Daiwa says, the child allowance represents a “hidden” bonus for the gambling industry.
Largely because of the legal grey zone in which they thrive.
Other analysts have questioned the wisdom of the child subsidy proposal. Research by the Kansai Institute of Social and Economic research found that only slightly more than half of Japanese were positive about the idea and more than a third intended simply to churn any cash they received into savings or paying-off loans.