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Originally Posted by Umihito
Yeah, it's definitely not that Japanese people are xenophobic. They just want to keep their country to themselves, and I find that a perfectly good choice considering immigrant problems with other countries.
It's good that Japan has strict requirements for long term visas with things like language, university degrees etc. What I'm also worried about is that if Japan does need more foreigners, they may relax those very requirements, and all sorts of under-qualified people will be flooding in and draining resources instead of contributing to society.
I'm with everyone that's worried about the language barrier if the laws are relaxed. If people want to move to Japan, they should at least know the language to a good extent. I'm not trying to be stereotypical here, but if the trial Brazilians with Japanese decent couldn't even learn the language (assuming they'd have access to better language learning from parents etc) then lord knows what would happen with other foreigners.
In my old Geography lessons we also had sources disputing whether immigrants actually help the economy or not, but as with everything there's good and bad points so there's no definite answer.
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The Brazilians is a difficult topic because they came 230,000 strong all at once, which is insane. And they just got lumped into different hubs where they all stuck together and didn't really get a chance to join Japanese society.
If all the immigrants that come have great educations and good spoken Japanese then that will just make it harder for Japanese people to get the high paying jobs. Countries generally want immigrants that don't contribute to crime, but also take the blue collar jobs that others don't want.
When you see the demands of most countries, including Japan, of their immigrants it's quite silly and preposterous.
Please take the shit jobs, immerse yourself completely into society, ditch your heritage, make the Japanese nationals richer and wipe the asses of the aging ones, then go back home when you get old.