ah yes, tough immigration talk in a country with an actively collapsing population
That's gonna go over well
Are there even people that really want to move to Japan? Its rather famous for being exclusionary to the point of making our western xenophobes blush. It seems that when I do read about people wanting to move it is someone who has some fascination with Japan itself; rather than the economic benefits like the US.
Yes, there are. Japanophiles are a thing too, but mostly you're looking at East, South and Southeast Asians looking for economic opportunity in the same way Arabs and Turks move to Europe. Most common are Chinese and Vietnamese apparently. Also while Japan can get pretty exclusionary in its own way, most people are fine and there are plenty of good points.
I wouldn’t mind living on one of the depopulated islands in the south
I would love to live on Hokkaido. I'm a snowboarder. It's heaven for me.
Hmmm, I had not considered that.
I want to live in a little 5x8’ coffin pod in Tokyo.
Yeah I’d love to live there but I’ve seen enough between the xenophobia and work culture to turn me off.
The country is beautiful and I would honestly enjoy it there. Their economy and xenophobia (and, realistically, language too) definitely stops me from ever moving there.
Also there's always an infinite supply of weeaboos available.
As best I can tell, you really need to go there for someone or for some reason. Going just to work and do business isn't the way.
Idk, some of the other commenters have some points, particularly around other asians trying to go there. I certainly would not want to live there (as cool as it seems)
Well, yes, people from the global south have, for a century, wanted to get into the global north. This is something we will see change within our lifetimes.
Blaming immigrants instead of the filthy rich has a long tradition in many countries.
Don't forget that like most racist and anti-immigration parties of the world, they have ties to Russia.
The head of the party of course denied this, as he did in the past when he tried to claim that Russia wasn't really responsible for the war in Ukraine...
Japan's immigrant population is just %3, which is less than the global average, sound like the usual fear mongering
Why does Japan want to further tighten already difficult immigration measures?
Racism.
I was very surprised that in Japan there is still a heavy culture of 'pure' blood Japanese. Such an advanced country in a lot of ways but culturally they are quite stuck in the past it seems like.
I think it’s the island living. Cuts them off from a lot.
No Japanese grandmother will ever forgive their halfbreed grandchildren for existing. I have known several such people who were treated with hatred by their grandparents while their cousins were showered with love.
Been the opposite in my experience. Grandparents are just happy to have rugrats running around, halfsies or not.
...which is funny because the way things are going, the tiny people living in Japan will share the same fate as homo floresiensis (hobbit-sized species of humans that lived on an island nation of sorts and we've extinct). Thousands of years from nowz archeologists will compare the two and wonder if homo floresuensis were equally as racist.
The last "true" Japanese person (according to them)—someone named, Sato—will be heard shouting that "it's all the immigrants fault" as they die of heat exhaustion about 200-250 years from now.
難しい移民は日本人にとって面白いですね。なぜか分かりません。はは。
this says "the Japanese overwhelmingly love immigrants. haha"
LOL race to the bottom. They can't even reproduce but are worried about immigrants.
They'll have fun accusing everyone they don't like of being Korean
They're just gonna run the same play? They might be racist/tribalistic enough for the grift to work, hopefully they're not. 🤷
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