Tokyo City Hall is developing dating app to encourage marriage, childbirth

FILE - The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office building is pictured on June 15, 2016. Tokyo's City Hall is trying to encourage people to form couples in a country where it's increasingly common to be alone.

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.