We still have a very small gaijin population here compared to Europe, the USA, and Canada. Most foreigners here are professionals with good jobs. We are not like Toronto and Los Angeles. Japan has done well with their strict immigration policy. I love it here because its still homogenous, and most foreigners are accepted as respectable people.
I was under the impression from friends who have visited Japan that they import Filipinos for their lower working class; I wouldn’t know myself. The number of gaijin there today is probably 1000% of the number there ten years ago; the native population is held up as the epitome of an aging, dying population (moreso than Western European countries that are looking at the same fate). I’m not pointing fingers; the European settlers of the United States are going the same way.