Japan Radically Increased Immigration—and No One Protested
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[–]SeasideLimbs 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Absolutely laughable and dishonest article.
Of course nobody is protesting - yet. Of course in Japan "a large increase in immigration has mostly been met with a shrug." Of course "anti-immigrant sentiments are widespread, [but] they do not run very deep, or so suggests the lack of substantial opposition."
Quote from the article:
"Today, nearly 3 million migrants live in Japan out of a population of 126 million."
To put those numbers into perspective, Germany currently has 21 million migrants out of a population of 83 million. Meaning this article is comparing a country in which one fiftieth of its population is migrants to countries in which one quarter of its population is migrants.
The author can try again when 25% of Japan's population is migrants, particularly ones who are starkly at odds with Japan's culture. See whether they still react "with a shrug" then.
[–]Truth_about_trees 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
Good comment!
If they do start letting more people in it will probably be from very specific countries and there will always be xenophobia about it. Japan is a very ethnonational country.
If there isn't already clamour about migration into Japan then there will be and my guess is they will prefer people from Western countries.
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