Japan's unemployment rate over the last decade averaged below 3%. That is essentially full employment with jobs to spare.

Hardly any takers for those positions.

Even if you fly them in and out, they'd still need a work visa. Controlling an avatar-robot could thus indeed be seen as a scheme to circumvent working visas.

> Why is that so much different than them controlling a robot remotely?

Plenty of consequences from people being physically present there.

You have to clear customs, account for smuggling, human trafficking, epidemiological risks, possibility of people fleeing or becoming stranded in the destination country for whatever reason.

Doesn't account for e.g. British pensioners who, back before Brexit, would buy property in Spain and spend their retirement there, putting considerable pressure on local healthcare.

Similarly, there's a growing resentment in Japan towards real estate bros, who buy several properties just to rent them out.