The ability to cut out commutes and move out to cheaper places and bigger homes that are aligned with child raising is a huge help, as well as improving many people's lives generally.
The government should really be leaning hard into this, and attacking meeting culture (especially in-person meetings) head-on.
I am seeing that play out first-hand at my workplace. During COVID, we went fully remote due to shutdowns. Then the leadership embraced it fully. Then all the systems were set up to onboard anyone working from anywhere smoothly. Phase two was multiple rounds of laying off American workforce over the last 12 months. And now phase three has started where all the engineering headcount is abroad (India, Eastern Europe, Latin America) in the name of cost cutting.
Please excuse my strong language but the American engineers clamoring for remote work are short-sighted idiots who are killing the goose laying golden eggs. Great for developers in the third world countries though.
Japan would be uniquely immune, since the main barrier to an offshore dev working for 1st world companies is the language barrier, and they're all learning English, not niche languages like Japanese. The next barrier is the cultural one, which is even more extreme in the Japanese case.