[central_va]

his nation needs to attend to its own demographic challenges posed by falling birth rates and an aging population before opening its doors to refugees.

What a novel concept prioritizing your own citizens needs before invading hordes....

[Lucy Hamilton]

Yes how racist of Japan.

[Vigilanteman]

According to Ministry of Justice data, it accepted just 11 asylum seekers out of a record 5,000 applications last year . . .

The most common reason for rejecting applications is "unlikely to be self-sustainable or happy in Japanese society." Now, why can't we do likewise?

Even during the salad days of immigration during the Ellis Island era, we rejected many would-be immigrants for nearly identical reasons though, I believe, the exact wording was "likely to become wards of the state or held values incompatible with the ideals of Americans." Yes, that meant that we rejected self-identified Communists.

[leaning conservative]

Thanks, thanks a lot for stealing my post! That’s pretty much it in a nutshell.