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Java doesn't have syntax for importing more than one member of a package in one statement.

Either you import a single member, or all with *.

Combine that with IDEs that auto-create the import statement, and there you go.

I just remembered: also, each class in Java has to be in it's separate file. That might very well be the biggest factor.

In Python you usually import a module and use that as a symbol, or `from module import Symbol1, Symbol2, Symbol3`.

Java doesn't have the former, and the latter requires an import per symbol (it also has the ability to import every symbol in a namespace, and so does Python, but that's usually discouraged)

I think if you grouped the import statements by package the numbers would be similar but typically people import individual classes.