Japan has repeatedly been condemned by the United Nations and European leaders for refusing to take in more than a handful of Muslim asylum seekers in any given year (only 11 were granted asylum in 2016), but they not only are standing firm on their policies for refugees and immigration, they are making it even harder for asylum seekers to work.
Mindful of the fact that so-called ‘multiculturalism’ (when it consists of large numbers of Muslims) has been a failure in Europe, where most Muslims refuse to assimilate and the majority of refugees, who have little or no skills, will live on welfare benefits for most of their lives, Japan sees no need to cave in to international pressure to be more welcoming to refugees.
On the other hand, Japan is one of the world’s leading financial contributors to refugee assistance programs, as long as those refugees are not in Japan.
Business Insider (h/t Marvin W) Japan will limit asylum seekers’ right to work starting today, making changes to its refugee system that are likely to swell the numbers of those in detention centers, the justice ministry said, prompting refugee groups to flag humanitarian concerns.
The move to tighten one of the developed world’s toughest refugee systems, which accepted just ten during the period from January to September last year, is a bid to clamp down on what Japan views as a system of back-door immigration.
From Monday, the right to work is to be limited only to those Japan regards as bonafide refugees, while repeat applicants and those failing initial checks will be held in detention centers after their permission to stay in Japan expires, the justice ministry said.
“We want to focus on responding appropriately to refugees that need protection,” Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa told a news conference on Friday, adding that the changes do not mean the government will be reluctant to accept refugees.
Asylum seekers with valid visas now receive renewable permits to work in Japan while their refugee claims are reviewed – a system the government says has spurred people to seek asylum as a means of finding jobs.
With its shrinking population and high barriers to blue-collar immigration, Japan is grappling with the tightest labor demand in decades.
This has spawned a “gray” labor market, in which worker-strapped companies hire asylum seekers to make up the numbers, Reuters’ investigations have found.
The number of asylum seekers in Japan has risen steadily in recent years to a record, with more than 14,000 applicants between January and September last year, an increase of almost 80 percent from the year earlier period, ministry data shows.
About 60 percent of those asylum seekers would not qualify for work permits under the new system, said justice ministry official Tetsuya Hagioka, who oversees the refugee system.
The changes, which could lead to more detentions, will affect only those who seek asylum after Monday, Hagioka said, adding that current holders of work permits can continue working while their claims are reviewed.
Japan’s immigration detention centers held 417,383 people in 2016, the latest year for which data is available. The figure includes those detained more than once during the year, however.
Activists say cracking down on asylum seekers looking for work will not resolve the issue, however. “The abuse of the refugee system stems from the fundamental fact that Japan suffers from labor shortages and yet does not accept foreign workers,” said Eri Ishikawa, of the Japan Association for Refugees.
“We are greatly worried about the government threatening the asylum seekers’ livelihood without addressing this core issue.”
Those 11 Muslims who were granted asylum are 11 too many! Given a population that is actually shrinking, these 11 will marry native brides (multiple of them per man) and procreate in geometric proportion. Of course, none of them will work, and collect welfare and medical benefits. Nations like Japan and Germany have robust social safety net since people do not abuse it, and natives actually feel ashamed to be on it. Not so Muslims who think it their right to do so. I do hope that Japan cracks donw on their runaway immigration at 11 last year. They will be outbred in no time at all!
Japan can do whatever the hell they want! Keep the Muslum problem out! Who are these 400,000+ in detention centers?
“Japan is one of the world’s leading financial contributors to refugee assistance programs,”
If freaking izslime is soooooo “superior to everything else” WHY is it that it’s millions of deadbrained muzslime that continually demand assistance. Screw the vile bastards and bastardets. The world certainly does NOT owe the filthy evil followers of a filthy evil “religion” fabricator, anything. Their idiot “religion” makes them unfit to be contributors to real civilized society. They need to be quarantined in their miserable sand box nations and let them figure it out….. let me see do I want to be a muzslime that has no purpose or hope, or do I want to be a human?
Japan gets it and eventually and hopefully will stop all mus slum immigration for their own safety. We need to learn this truth from the EU before it is too late to save America from the jihad bomb of immigration and birth numbers. Amazing how the mus slum countries take in 0 mus slums and the UN says nothing. These 7 mus slum countries bring in 0 and they know why. Because it is about populating and taking over non mus slum countries for allah the moooon god .
Advances in robotic industrial production make 3rd or 4th world islamist labor unnecessary.
11 granted asylum in 2016? That’s 11 too many!
I bet tourism is still a big part of the Japanese economy while places like France and Sweden and other European countries where Muslims are burning vehicles and blowing themselves up or running people down. The photos of Paris France shown on this site remind us of the slums in places like harlem. Japan isn’t blocking off their tourist attractions with big boulders or blocking off street in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The moral of this story, Keep Muslim out and limit the risk of a Jihadist attack to near zero chances.