The Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just approved a bill that aims to make significant changes to the nation’s immigration control law to reflect the changes in the workforce and society. Abe was crystal clear when he said that Japan has a need for temporary workers, but it has no need for “so-called immigrants.”
Japan as a graying nation with a shrinking workforce needs both robots and outside help especially in the areas of construction, transportation, retail and life sciences. Thus there will be the creation of a new residence class for foreign workers, but critically different from the West, they will only ever have visitor status – they will not be allowed to stay en mass.
(Having lived in Japan both as a student and a temporary worker, I can confirm that my student and work visas were only good for 6 months at time and had to be renewed in order to stay for one year. Should you not leave Japan by the date your visa expires, immigration officials will hunt you down and deport you when they find you…and find you they will. —BNI)
Abe made it clear, “We are not adopting a policy on people who will settle permanently in the country, or so-called immigrants.” Japan does not practice uncontrolled mass migration and benefits to their society continue to stack up.And as a result, Japanese workers are enjoying a 5-year period of growth in jobs, and most importantly better working conditions.
Even better, because Japan takes in few, if any, Muslim migrant workers, it has yet to suffer Islamic terrorist attacks as Western Europe and United States have.
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Anti-immigration protesters in Japan are well-protected by police.
Japan is one of the developed world’s least welcoming countries for asylum seekers. It accepted only 28 in 2016, despite applications from a record 10,091 people. Since 2008, only 152 people have been granted asylum in Japan, which rejects about 99% of asylum requests every year.
Reuters Multiculturalism is seen as destructive to Japanese society, traditions and culture. Japanese pride themselves on the homogeneous nature of the country and their immigration policies reflect that.
Japan’s reluctance to accept refugees mirrors a wider caution towards immigration in a nation where many pride themselves on cultural and ethnic homogeneity. (Many long-time Korean residents in Japan, change their names to Japanese ones because of discrimination)
According to Human Rights Watch, when looking for solutions to the global refugee crisis, Japan is often identified as a country that could do more. It contributes generously to the United Nations refugee agency but does very little in terms of accepting asylum seekers in Japan, especially MUSLIM asylum seekers.
The Tokyo Reporter reported that of the handful of Muslim refugees Japan did accept last year, two of them, aged 22 and 16, have already gang-raped, assaulted, and robbed a 31-year-old Japanese female.
Out of 7,586 asylum applications received in 2015, Japan accepted just 27. The figure was announced by the country’s Ministry of Justice. The minister pointed out that “the figure is a significant increase compared to the 11 refugees in 2014 and six in 2013.” According to the latest UNHCR figures, of the more than 128 million residents in the land of the rising sun, there are just 2,419 refugees.
Linda Rivera says
November 13, 2018 at 12:44 pmJapanese leaders are CIVILIZED and ETHICAL. Outstanding role models of what leaders should be.
Just Your Average American says
November 13, 2018 at 12:09 pmMy sister taught english in Japan for a couple of years. She LOVES the country. Made lifelong friends and will always feel comfortable there when she visits. She only ran into prejudice once on the train; an elderly woman looked at her with distain (remembrances of war?), She can never be one of them, but she shouldn’t have to; she’s an american. Now if only she will open her liberal eyes to what is going on in Europe to see that multiculturalism just doesn’t work and that islam simply will not allow itself to become part of our great melting pot experience.
BareNakedIslam says
November 13, 2018 at 1:17 pmThat was pretty much my experience in Japan.
Sharon Hutchinson says
November 13, 2018 at 10:52 amJapan will likely keep any “refugees” housed in one area and constantly keep an eye on them. This has been their procedure for centuries. They protect their own people.
NessunoTocchiSalvini says
November 13, 2018 at 9:08 amBecause Japanese people keept common sense.
I laughted when i saw a Japanese video about countries to not take as model. It was Sweden.
Sweden leaders say that they will make Sweden be a country other countries should take as model. They got the opposite effect in japan (I guess not only in Japan).
It happened i meet a Japanese on youtube that admiored Sweden, but oh… if there is democracy, people might think differently. Is important that Japanese wil not lose their common sense, but it seems that, even if their culture include shame, at least they don’t have the guilty complex of Western Europeans and Americans.
I see from graphic that there are no muslim countries. I see many Christian majority countries, some Buddhist countries, but not islamic countries. Japanese will respect your religion if you respect theirs. And in temples, doesn’t matter what you believe, you still have to act accordingly.
I’ve seen a video where a Japanese said ‘Complaining is not good in Japan, and it seems complaining is part of Muslim culture, so this is not a place for them!’
BareNakedIslam says
November 13, 2018 at 1:06 pmNTS, when I was in Japan, I noticed a lot of discrimination against Koreans there, despite the fact that they are the same race. Muslims will never be able to penetrate the nationalistic “We Japanese” thinking over there. Not to mention the fact that most Japanese have witnessed what happens whenever Western countries take in large numbers of Muslims.They will not open themselves up to that.
Despite all this, the Japanese are incredibly warm and welcoming to foreigners…as long as you don’t try to become citizens there. LOL I consider the 2 separate years I spent in Japan to be among the happiest times in my life.
CanuckECheese says
November 13, 2018 at 2:55 amAnd dangerous and predatory.
CanuckECheese says
November 13, 2018 at 2:52 amThe Japanese are no fools. They are not interested in civilizational s uicide. We in the West, unfortunately, are.
Diesel Strongboy says
November 12, 2018 at 9:49 pmRun this by me again – A guest worker comes to Japan, works for five years or so, upholds the law, renews his visa as required, learns Japanese, can’t become a citizen of Japan? I’m glad America is not like that, or none of my grandparents would have been able to become Americans.
A better solution to a graying population with a shrinking workforce would be for Japanese to make more babies. Sounds like fun.
BareNakedIslam says
November 12, 2018 at 10:02 pmYes, that’s the way it is. Don’t like it, don’t go there. When I was in Japan, I knew two foreign women married to Japanese men and they were not given citizenship. It’s worth it not to have a lot of Muslims in the country, although there are about 10,000 Muslims there, mostly from Indonesia.
acowpig says
November 13, 2018 at 7:47 pm1.GUESTWORKER-did you understand the word???
2.America is a stolen Country that was nearly empty and open for everybody-now you cant change it anymore.America,Canada,Australia are not normal born/rised countries.
There are countries where the same people live for thousands of years and in thsi c. the ethnicity and the citizenship is mostly the same.
Till 2000 it was also hard in germany to get a passport for foreigners,but germans from Romania who lived for 900 years there get a Passport easy(if they had documents that they are german-also they still spoked german-even the Priests didnt allowed mixed marriages in Romania).
Greece allowed Greeks from the Caucasus the Immigration-and they Emigrated 2000 years ago!
And thats right.A German cant be a Greek and a Greek cant be a German.Whats wrong with it?
Even if i was born in Japan i cant say:Im proud of the Samurais.WTF had i to do with them?Nothing!I can live the country,the people,the culture but i never became a Japanese.
solange Silverman says
November 12, 2018 at 9:38 pmJapan has cited Islam and its believers as being “strange and weird.” I think that appropriately sums it up.
martelsson says
November 12, 2018 at 8:20 pmGood for Japan. Frankly – the days of mass refugees coming into any country needs to end. Japan provides a working model for consideration.
Lincoln Applegate Hahn says
November 12, 2018 at 7:43 pmJapan works like a Swiss watch …. not a Karachi sun dial ?