Japanese youths forced to work in farms due to unemployment

"He (Tatsunori Kobayashi) is part of Japan’s 2,400-strong Rural Labor Squad, urban trainees dispatched to the countryside under a pilot program to put Japan’s underemployed youth to work tilling its farms," according to NYT.

Who could have imagined that young Japanese people so used to city life that men who were farmers could not find women to marry (and were importing wives from Asia) would be forced to go back to the countryside to make a living? I wonder who will now go to Europe, USA, and other shopping destinations!