Tokyo paying families to leave due to overcrowding

(Tokyo) -- Japan is offering to pay families to relocate out of Tokyo to the countryside.

This comes as the capital city deals with overcrowding.

Starting in April, families are eligible to receive around 77-hundred dollars per child to move to less-populated areas in order to help revitalize the countryside and boost the falling birthrate.

It's not the first time the government has used financial incentives to get people to move out of Tokyo, but this program is the most generous to date.

The city currently has a population of around 37-million people.