The prime minister said she wants lower immigration in order to preserve Japanese culture:
https://x.com/ianmiles/status/1980957928791437360?s=46
The result will be lower GDP. But the culture will remain strictly Japanese
https://x.com/ianmiles/status/1980957928791437360?s=46
The result will be lower GDP. But the culture will remain strictly Japanese
Japanese-ness is not some backward notion from a time that the world has advanced beyond. They take Japanese-ness extremely seriously. One ignores it to their own detriment. As that particular Miss Japan contestant found out.
And as, I suspect, many foreign residents of Japan will find out in the coming years. It's unfortunate.
But culture above everything I guess?
Eventually the population will get low enough that standards of living start improving because there's so much land and resources per person, and the Japanese birth rate will start rising again. Which won't happen if they keep importing foreigners to compete with Japanese youth for resources.
Check the EU: millions of foreigner have arrived in the past 20 years, yet EU's GDP has been growing very little during the same time
Sigh.
the ldp is pro-immigration. numbers are going up.