Der Westen will Neuankömmlinge zu seinen eigenen Bedingungen. Das gilt auch für Japan – Japan und andere wohlhabende Länder wählen zunehmend ausländische Arbeitskräfte aus und erschweren gleichzeitig eine dauerhafte Niederlassung
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/10/08/japan/west-japan-want-newcomers/?utm_medium=social&utm_type=image&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=iwy2xjawu3vj1lehrua2flbqixmabwzg9mawjyawqrmurxtxf6ylzurfl0smlhnnzzcnrjbmfwcf9pzbaymjiwmzkxnzg4mjawodkyaaee-qwuzpekz5vtwdviflafa_rfwfpyzwrz3ruankbnvbo1xvr8xqjoo8uvjcu_aem_brz2uyzoay9ppj3tejdztq#Echobox=1791452909-1
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Other countries can afford to be picky. Japan cannot with its dogshit wages.
When has it been any other way for Japan?
let’s call it what it is, it’s modern day indentured servitude. at least in the western countries you get a reasonable chance to settle down, Japan just want you to work, pay you like shit, then fuck you off back to where you come from. good luck Japan, hope you have your cake and eat it too.
and judging by the number of Japanese sex workers in other parts of Asia, I’m not so sure Japan is even that wealthy these days.
Imagine lecturing us on foreign workers when your own country can’t even handle it. Japan has zero interest in Europe’s ‚diversity.‘ If your approach is such a success, why the massive riots in France? Plain delusion.
Japan is „wealthy“????
It’s funny how Japan only picks controversial stuff from the ‚West‘.
Shitty-immigration-but-the-excuse-we-needed: yay
Better work/life balance: f*@& no!
they want slaves to make their rich lifestyles enviable
vol 99
I feel like the ideal foreign worker for Japan is someone young, fluent in Japanese, and will interact with Japan / Japanese people as little as possible. You go straight to work and straight back home, and you’ll be grateful to do so in the wonderful country of Japan.
TLDR: Japan want slaves.
They are basically saying they do it so we can do it to.
What they are not saying is unlike other „wealthy“ countries, Japan pulled the rug out from underneath people already living here.
There are strong legal arguments against that except (1) Immigration Services Agency is part of DOJ, so they are not enforcing their own laws. (2) You’d need to raise a civil suit against the government which is time consuming and expensive. (3) Japanese lawyers are getting excited over the ICC, but foreigners, hah, you are on your own. I reached out to some, they are not interested.
**There’s not a lot you can do, but you can file a complaint with the UN HCR:**
ICCPR (Articles 17, 23 & 26): Forcing out family members constitutes unlawful interference with family life and violates equal protection regardless of national origin. Legislation has no breaks for mixed-race Japanese-foreign families.
CRC (Article 3): Destabilizing foreign and cross-cultural households ignores the mandatory „best interests of the child.“
ICERD (Articles 2 & 5): Policies causing discriminatory impacts on foreign residents breach obligations to eliminate racial discrimination.
ICESCR (Articles 9, 10 & 11): Infringes on fundamental rights to social security, family protection, and an adequate standard of living.
FILE A COMPLAINT HERE: [https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/complaint-procedure/hrc-complaint-procedure-index](https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/complaint-procedure/hrc-complaint-procedure-index) CITING The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法 – Shutsunyūkoku Kanri oyobi Ninnin Nintei Hō)
Europe’s obsession with ‚diversity‘ is nothing more than cheap atonement for its own historically oppressive, non-diverse past. Japan was never controlled by a single absolute monotheistic God like yours. Stop imposing your toxic guilt complex on us. We couldn’t care less about your flavor of ‚diversity.
I don’t even make a lot for American standards but I would be decently well off if I kept my pay and moved there. I’d be able to live a life as if it was 20-25 years ago in the US. I’ve basically tripled my earning since starting to work at 18 and it was somehow easier when I was making less money because of how things were.
I think the bigger risk is as China also ages and gets richer, the southeast Asian labor much prefer going there than Japan
Reality is that young Japanese really don’t want to do things like take care of the elderly or jobs that are back breaking. Letting in foreigners is not really a choice they can make because the choice is made for them
There is a tendency to lump together highly skilled immigrants and those who take relatively low-wage jobs that local residents are unwilling to do. It is important to note that in Western countries, demand for workers in the latter category has already been met to some extent by past immigrants (including undocumented immigrants). In any country, there is likely an underlying sentiment that these foreign workers in the latter category should be kept as temporary residents (who can be dismissed at any time) rather than granted permanent residency. From the perspectives of wages, living conditions, and diversity, I do not believe Japan is an attractive destination for immigrants. Yet I simply cannot understand why foreigners go out of their way to come all the way to Japan, only to complain about the country once they arrive. Why don’t they go to Europe or North America instead?
Japan doesn’t pay enough lol. Get real. Most industries are almost quite literally 1/3 the wage of the USA
Not Canada
– a Canadian
Its fun because the world gets to watch a country commit slow motion suicide.
Japan? Wealthy? Ahahahaha
Good joke, really good.
The problem for Japan is that xenophobic policies like those the author (who works for an American organization affiliated with the US military it should be noted) seems to be advocating is that they are a kind of luxury item that it can’t really afford.
Turning 90% of foreign residents into a permanent underclass that has no chance of having any sort of meaningful or beneficial existence here is going to impose costs on Japanese society.
Short term workers without any long term prospects here are, and I mean no offence, the worst group to be relying on economically speaking. Any earnings they make will simply be repatriated to their home country when they leave, and none of them will contribute (by founding businesses, making investments, etc) beyond their labor while they are here. They will all have a massive incentive to not contribute anything since it’ll all be wasted for them.
Plus as the author acknowledges Japan already is struggling to attract workers. The pay on offer is miserly compared to elsewhere, and source countries like Vietnam and Thailand both have low birthrates and increasingly rising wages of their own. Probably the low administrative costs/ possibility of staying longer term was a comparative advantage for Japan. It no longer has that.
The bigger problem that gets swept under the rug though is that Japan’s demographic collapse is at an alarmingly advanced stage and it is atrophying the entire country. Xenophobia doesn’t make that problem magically disappear, and while immigration isn’t in itself a solution to it, it does actually mitigate the problem significantly. Newcomers taking a bit of time to figure out how to sort garbage isn’t a threat to the trains running on time as the author (idiotically IMO) implies. Japan needs not just short term labor, but long term workers who are also consumers and taxpayers that keep Japanese markets afloat.
Japanese companies are falling behind massively and the cause is not just a shortage of labor, its a shortage of consumers. They all operate in a shrinking market which companies in other countries aren’t saddled with (yet). A shrinking market destroys investment and innovation and puts all companies into a kind of survival mode in which they horde cash and don’t do much else.
The ideal source of people would of course be young Japanese, but unfortunately they don’t exist in anywhere near the numbers needed and are becoming rarer and rarer with each passing year. So if you are going to sabotage one way of mitigating that problem, I think you have a duty to explain what you will functionally replace it with in order to fill the gap it is going to create. Technology isn’t an answer by itself either, its just the mechanical equivalent of the shortterm worker that doesn’t contribute beyond their labor.
The issue is that Japan wants an immigrant that is paradoxical.
From fellow developed countries, but willing to take 3rd world wage
If it is Asian, cannot someone from nearby developing countries
Fluent in Japanese but interact with Japanese society as little as possible
Young and healthy, pay into pension and health insurance but will not dream about settling in Japan permanently
Or someone rich, but they need to be ok with dealing with high tax and little to no benefit for non-Japanese citizen
So the only acceptable immigrant ends up being a young conservative Aussie/ American who first came to Japan on work holiday visa, after studying Japanese from 6 years because they love anime. Someone who left their country because they hate immigrants. And now they are an Eikaiwa teacher trying to figure out how to afford their children education and complain about how they can’t get PR now and how their wife is threatening a divorce on Reddit
Or someone rich in r/JapanFinance but normally they don’t last that long after getting hit by all the tax bills
Every politician likes not fixing real problems and have a nice and easily packaged scapegoat they can use to rile people up to get votes.
Japan: “We want you to work for us”
Also Japan: “But we don’t want you to stay. If you get old enough get the f out”
This is not a bad thing …
Choosing who to let stay in your country is a very important thing …
Japan is not a wealthy country. Japan is the most debt-ridden country in the world! It’s a paper castle, that looks good from afar due to the artisanal craft, but once you get closer, you realize it is being propped up by popsicle sticks and tape.
The little saying « Keeping up with appearances » is Japan incarnate.
There was a film about 20 years ago that perfectly captured the dystopia we are seemingly moving into as regards gatekeeping of Earth’s „desirable nation states/cities“ to reside…..
Getting stuck in the „outside world“ (for those who „don’t pass“) will be a risky affair of brutal struggle against lawlessness, environmental degradation, health threats and much besides. Just as much of the developing world already is.
(AI summary…)
Code 46
(2003 film directed by Michael Winterbottom)
• Plot: Set in a heavily controlled, futuristic society where movement and genetics are strictly regulated, insurance investigator William Geld (Tim Robbins) travels to a hyper-futuristic Shanghai to track down a forger of travel permits (Samantha Morton).
• Immigration & Borders: The story heavily revolves around „papelles“ (official travel documents), restricted urban enclaves, genetic compatibility rules („Code 46“), and the caste-like divide between citizens with free movement and out-of-bounds populations.
• Setting: Filmed on location in a sleek, architectural future-vision of Shanghai, the film uses the city’s cosmopolitan backdrop to explore themes of displacement, cross-border romance, and biometric surveillance.
The beggar can’t be picky….
This society operates on a strict binary legal framework where individual freedom is tethered to economic solvency and national lineage. Servitude is the bedrock of the Japanese economy, framing liberty not as an inherent human right, but as a privileged status earned through ongoing productivity and financial compliance. Within this system, every human being is classified either as a native citizen or a stateless foreigner, with their specific legal designation determining the exact mechanism of their servitude.
For native citizens, citizenship offers only temporary protection that is constantly threatened by debt and social credit scores. Falling below mandatory financial thresholds or defaulting on corporate obligations results in the immediate suspension of civil rights and conversion into a tradable asset. Citizens may also enter voluntary servitude contracts to cover ancestral debts or medical costs. These former citizens typically perform specialized administrative or technical labor, retaining limited protections such as fixed contract lengths and basic physical safety guarantees.**ブラック企業**
Foreigners exist entirely outside the legal framework and are automatically designated as state property upon entry. Possessing no legal rights or avenues for recourse, they are bought and sold on open exchanges to perform indefinite, hazardous labor in heavy industry and resource extraction. Sustained by automated biometric surveillance and corporate-state governance, this dual-tier system permanently normalizes slavery—keeping citizens bound by the threat of financial degradation and foreign populations trapped in generational servitude.