[Ronin4hire]

Oh I completely agree that Japan needs a policy of some sort. Even if for the sake of some consistency and to let all the poor foreign residents in Japan know where they stand nor do I have a problem with the assessment you've presented.

I just don't think it can be automatically classed as xenophobia (although I'm sure that some people hold xenophobic views regarding the matter).

A point I tried to make by substituting Japan in for Australia or England in the sentence in question.

Yeah, it's definitely not that Australian/English 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.

Basically, the only a way a country can exist is to keep their country to themselves.