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Tokyo City Hall is developing a dating app to encourage marriage and childbirth
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FILE - The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office building soars in Tokyo, on June 15, 2016. Called “Tokyo Futari Story,” the city hall online site is just that: An effort to create couples, “futari,” in a country where it is increasingly common to be “hitori," or alone. - photo by AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File
TOKYO (AP) — 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. While a site offering counsel and general information for potential lovebirds is online, a dating app is also in development. City hall hopes to offer it later this year, accessible through phone or web, a city official said Thursday.