Japan’s historic ‘anti-diversity culture’ means that Muslim immigration/asylum in Japan is virtually non-existent.
Having lived in Japan both as a student and a foreign worker for a Japanese company in the late ’70’s, I can confirm that both my student and work visas were only good for 6 months at time, and had to be renewed, in person, in order to stay longer. Should you not leave Japan by the date your visa expires, Japanese immigration officials will hunt you down and immediately deport you…and rest assured, find you they will. —BNI
Today, due to an aging workforce, there are Muslim foreign workers in Japan, from places like Indonesia, but they are not considered part of its immigration policy. While a small number of foreigners do attain permanent residency status, they virtually never are allowed to become citizens. In 2015, Japan only accepted 27 Muslim refugees for asylum and two of them were quickly arrested for gang rape. In subsequent years, few to none have been granted asylum.
Japan has created a new residence class for foreign workers, but critically different from the West, they will only ever have visitor status – and thus will not be able to stay in the country indefinitely. Attaining Japanese citizenship also is nearly impossible, even if you married a Japanese citizen.
Unlike Europe and other nations in the West, Japan has its eyes wide open to the negative impact (terror attacks/welfare-dependancy/soaring crime & rape stats) that Islam and its followers have brought to the rest of the world. And the Japanese aren’t having any of it.
BBC Japan is the world’s third-largest economy. It’s a peaceful, prosperous country with the longest life expectancy in the world, the lowest murder rate, little political conflict, a powerful passport, and the sublime Shinkansen, the world’s best high-speed rail network.
Japan still feels like Japan, and not a reproduction of America. It has many right wing admirers for refusing Muslim immigration and maintaining the patriarchy. It is often described as a country that has successfully become modern without abandoning the ancient.
When Covid struck, Japan closed its borders. Even permanent foreign residents were excluded from returning. I called up the foreign ministry to ask why foreigners who’d spent decades in Japan, had homes and businesses here, were being treated like tourists. The response was blunt: “they are all foreigners.”
A hundred and fifty years after it was forced to open its doors, Japan is still sceptical, even fearful of the outside world. A third of Japanese people are over 60, making Japan home to the oldest population in the world, after tiny Monaco. It is recording fewer births than ever before. By 2050, it could lose a fifth of its current
Yet its hostility to immigration has not wavered. Only about 3% of Japan’s population is foreign-born, compared to 15% in the UK. In Europe and America, right-wing movements point to it as a shining example of racial purity and social harmony.
Japan doesn’t suffer from mass Muslim immigration…or mass immigration of any kind. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was crystal clear when he said that “Japan has a need for temporary workers, but it has no need for ‘so-called immigrants.’”
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.
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.
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 BBC can eat a bag of moslem d***s.
When I was checking out the murder rates of countries, Japan had a very low rate. The USA on the other hand already had 30 mass murders the first 3 weeks of 2023.
Good for them. And what a group of fools to actually think their sort can understand fully the Japanese mind. But – this writer can understand here why Japan just isn’t interested in import such a crowd of know trouble-makers like Muslims. Maybe, I’m different, but I am a cousin of Commodore Matthew Perry who ‘opened’ Japan back in the 19th century, and that happen largely because the leadership in Japan decided to go along with it. Shaming them won’t work, but thinking that one only goes to further show the leftist herd will never understand.
Let’s hope Japan stays firm on this!
It’s called nationalism – it’s what makes us clearly definable as “us”.
In the US, it’s become a dirty word.
Not only the US, it is in most European coutries too