Posted on 04/05/2024 10:34:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Japan appears to be transitioning from a homogenous society to embrace ‘diversity and inclusivity’ by ushering in “an era of mass foreign immigration.”
It’s set to be a massive change for a country that was still up until recently 97.5% ethnic Japanese, according to the CIA World Factbook.
A Bloomberg report details how rapidly declining native birth rates, an aging society and a chronic labor shortage is fueling the importation of millions of foreigners who “are changing the face of Japan.”
The number of foreign workers in Japan has now exceeded 2 million, a 12.4% increase on 2022. The East Asian country needs at least 647,000 working-age immigrants per year to meet its 11 million worker shortage by 2040.
“Japan is entering an era of mass foreign immigration,” said Junji Ikeda, president of Saikaikyo, a Hiroshima-based agency that sources and supervises foreign workers. “Incremental adjustments will not suffice,” he added.
Under one program alone, 820,000 migrants will be admitted to work in the transportation and logistics sectors, a doubling of the previously agreed number, in order “to make efforts to realize an inclusive society,” according to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi.
While the process is being implemented under ‘skilled worker visas’, the actual roles migrants will fill include taxi drivers, bus drivers and factory workers.
Japan to admit 820,000 foreigners in transportation, logistics sectors; eases current regulations - https://t.co/Lj5j8IwKQj pic.twitter.com/1sWFCswLu5 — Nairametrics (@Nairametrics) April 1, 2024
The service industry will also be increasingly filled with foreign migrants, who will subsequently be allowed to bring their families to stay in Japan indefinitely.
The Economist reports that a “glimpse at Japan’s future” looks like convenience stores being staffed overwhelmingly by migrants, highlighting “the importance of immigration.”
The news outlet cites one such 7-Eleven store in central Tokyo where “all the staff are Burmese.”
For a glimpse at Japan’s future, look at its convenience stores.
https://t.co/FGAlQ2Qsnq — Shehzad Younis شہزاد یونس (@shehzadyounis) April 4, 2024
“Gearoid Reidy in an article for the Japan Times estimates that the number of overseas workers has more than doubled in the last decade, while the broader foreign community, which includes children and students, has risen by 50 per cent,” reports the Spectator.
“Reidy envisages a time when more than 10 per cent of Japan’s population will be foreign born, putting the famously homogenous, exclusive, nation on a par with the UK, U.S and France.”
Is Japan finally embracing immigration?
https://t.co/pwvnqobPB3— Takashi Shogimen 将基面貴巳 (@TakashiShogimen) January 8, 2024
Good luck with that.
At the end of last year, the government announced that crime had risen for the first time in 20 years, a situation native Japanese people might become more familiar with in the coming years.
A BBC News report about Japan’s previous refusal to adopt mass migration highlighted how the country was “stuck in the past,” with that past being characterized as “a peaceful, prosperous country with the longest life expectancy in the world, the lowest murder rate, little political conflict.”
Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past.
https://t.co/xwsnvGjWki — Joe Moran (@mjoran) April 28, 2023
Apparently, affordable property prices, “refusing immigration and maintaining the patriarchy,” and the fact that “Japan still feels like Japan, and not a reproduction of America,” is being “stuck in the past.”
However, while importing large numbers of workers, Japan does still seem to be keen to limit foreign nationals claiming to be asylum seekers.
A new system starting in June will give the government the power to deport foreigners who have had their asylum claims rejected multiple times.
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Bye Japan.
THey should have explored how to help women have children first.
Socialism was always about depopulation.
Rahm Emanuel is the US ambassador to Japan. He appears to be VERY EFFECTIVE in his job.
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How about eliminating the welfare that requires an ever expanding population to exploit.
Hello, Japan: just say ‘no.’
That’s what super low birth rates will do.
Filipino nurses?
Can Japan really be that stupid?
Suicide!
(Can Japan really be that stupid?)
Yes! Remember they attacked Pearl Harbor knowing that they’d awaken a sleeping giant. Then they refused to surrender after the first atomic bomb wiped out Hiroshima. It took a second and almost a third to get them to surrender.
This would be the perfect plan for Trump to send our illegal immigrants there.
Yes, modern economies are Ponzi schemes.
New people pay for the old people.
Idiots!
Japan is learning as the rest of the world is learning, it’s not possible to maintain even replacement level birth rate in a society where women go to college and get jobs outside the home.
They won’t get married early enough, and even those who do will not have enough time to care for multiple kids.
That will be the end of Japan. Liberalism is poison. They will find out the hard way but by then it will be too late.
Was this due to pressure from the Biden regime ?
The biggest problem is expecting people to keep pushing the requirements for a job before a person starts work. We need to bring back the guilds, where you learn along the way. Say 8 hours work and two hours learning, every day of your workday. This would allow a person to have his life and family and still have work.
For women, who really aren’t built for workdays, could stay home and keep the home while working part-time within the home.
There are reasons why society used to be this way, because it worked.
There were reports that the Emperor was planning to surrender after the first nuke, but there were rogue elements in the military who were planning a coup if that happened to prevent a surrender.
(The doctor survived because his hospital was on a hill and the radioactive fallout mostly stayed in the city at the bottom of the hill, and then they were fortunate enough to have a rain storm, which cleared the remaining fallout from the air.)
Did Apu get kicked off the Simpsons and out of Springfield? If so, it looks like there’s a 7-11 waiting for him in Japan!
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