If a foreigner clearly has skills that no available native has, and a company needs those skills to survive, then that company should be willing to pay a premium for those skills.
Do you agree or disagree?
I can tell you I agree - I’ve been posting on FR that the “premium” should be 20%, so I have no argument with you!
Trump - all of ‘em, in fact, should pick up on this - I did not know Japan had such a policy!
Japan is heavily protectionist in lots of areas. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it hurts.
But if we are going to take any immigrants into the country, young tech workers are our best choice to make, on average, so I don’t actually see why we need to be punitive in the tech area specifically, no.