At least the Japanese could dust off their Samaraui swords and return the favor of beheadings.
Japan might be willing take in a couple million more Filipina “hostesses”, but as for foreign laborers - forget it. :)
liberalism really is like a virus
Here’s to Japan resisting the rich tapestry of cultural enrichment and die-versity for as long as they exist !
Japan and the rest of Asia never adopted the idiotic ideas the West did after WWII. In fact, a good number of them sound like they’re from the 19th Century.
The Japanesedon’t even like the Koreans already living in Japan. I highly doubt immigration will ever become policy.
During the early 1990’s the yen was flying high while Iran’s economy was in the dumps.
A hold-over anomaly from the time of the Shah was that Iranians still didn’t need to get a visa before going to Japan on tourist visas —they could simply get off the airplane and stay.
And stay and stay, doing Jobs that Japanese People didn’t Want to Do; officially the story was they would unload ships, do construction, etc.
Uh...except that often the actual work was dealing drugs and selling fake phone cars.
For maybe 8 years in Tokyo you could go to any of the huge train stations on the Yamote Line (the line that endlessly circles the heart of Tokyo) and you would find HUGE CROWDS of Iranians milling around in the station, up to no good.
They would stare, stare, stare, stare, and flip around thick stacks of fake telephone cards (which then entitled long public phone calls, instead of troubling with lots of heavy coin change).
They would congregate in Yayogi Park on weekends —THOUSANDS of them.
It was clear there was a YUGE problem and a plan was hatched. They announced an impending free Persian New Year Party featuring free food —TONS of Iranians showed up, and tons of Police Busses showed up, too.
They sprung the trap and arrested them all, summarily deporting them.
It is a part of Japanese history that is very, very covered up.
To this day most Iranians in Iran consider Japanese EXTREMELY racist, and I think that’s okay.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! No.
Japan has been pressed numerous times about changing its immigration policy, and the answer has always been the same. Forget it. They have conducted a number of small scale experiments, and the results have never been positive.
why is low birth rate ‘catastrophic’ ?
isn’t that what we were supposed to do the last 40 years?
less drain on resources, balanced carbon footprints, and all that?
happy little countries with happy little populations?
But if low birthrate is so catastrophic, can’t it better be solved by encouraging an increase in native birthrate instead of encouraging outside migration?
Why should they? Catastrophic demographic decline? Has anyone noticed Japan is an overcrowded highly populated small island nation? Their population is not that much different than Russia, however Russia has a large land mass to house their population. Plus Japan doesn't have very many natural resources. A decline in population would be a good thing for Japan. Also, robots and technology are getting jobs done and replacing former human workers. The robots are not trouble-makers like the illiterate third-worlders that outsiders want Japan to take in. Robots won't kill and torture your people because of following an evil religion.
If they allow more immigrants in, I hope they are wise enough to be extremely selective. Either way, I don’t see them changing their expectations with regard to assimilating to Japanese culture.
Japan has had issues with several hundred thousand Japanese-Brazilians they brought in over the past 20 years. There are Japanese Americans, Peruvians and others they could tap that immigrated a century ago, especially if they didn’t require nearly pure blood to immigrate.
Japanese can be described as one big tribe. Ttheir high degree of social cohesion, low crime, civil society are all such because they are relatively uniform (large Korean minority excepted). Harvard scientist Robert Putnam found that diversity hurts civic life, reduces social trust, pushes tribalism / grouping when the minorities are large enough to form their own enclaves. That’s a reason NOT to have major influxes of incompatible cultures.
My college frat mate teaches English at a gakuen’ or high school there in a prefecture. Japan is the only place where they have signs saying NO FOREIGNERS ALLOWED in kanji. I even bet him that’s not possible but i saw it for myself when i visited there years ago. They do have the right idea..
I think the answer is NO.
Already NO in 2014: http://tinyurl.com/z22cbgo
Still NO in 2015: http://tinyurl.com/hr9lozn
And because of this it will stay HELL NO for some time: http://tinyurl.com/hts5oth
I keep hearing this cliche "catastrophic." WHY is that so? All nations' populations have risen and fallen throughout history due to war, peace, disease, changes in climate, economics, culture etc...
ONLY because Europe, Japan, and the USA (as well as China) are financialized, statist, quasi (or outright) socialist countries, and have MASSIVE DEBT, do politicians and elites push the idea that population decline must be a disaster. Its only a disaster for them.
the Japanese, more than anyone, value the survival of their culture above all. They will work out their debt issues in a Japanese way, and will still be around as an independent nation and culture long after the West has destroyed our own.