Japan is super homogeneous, yet they still feel the need for these laws? Pretty screwed up.
If Japan could rid themselves of racism and xenophobia, they could really make inroads worldwide. Here in South Africa, I’ve met many black Africans who like Japan, like the cities, the modernization, the technology and engineering, are fans of the superficial culture stuff, and hell a few are even full on weebs. And quite a few would like to live there if the opportunity would arise.
I still don’t really get it. Japan has an aging population, they can’t afford to turn down anyone that wants to work for them really. Look at the inroads that China has made in Africa, despite struggling themselves with racism and the like. Japan could do similar, in a purely self serving manner even.
Japan used to make over 90% of its rice domestically, now it’s less than half, and the reason is that the countryside has been systematically depopulated and all the farms are understaffed. They’ve got the homes and infrastructure already built, and important jobs that could be filled, literally a dream scenario for anyone who might be pro immigration - but the LDP is going to keep digging in their heels and doubling down on nationalism, and the occupying American military will keep preventing any leftist sentiment among the population from taking control of the system. Shit sucks.
Japanese culture, painting with very broad strokes, is extremely racist and xenophobic. Look up the way Korean immigrant workers or wrose, half-Korean half Japanese people, are treated to get an idea of some of the modern problems. It doesn’t help that Japan brutalized most other SE Asian nations during the 30s and 40s and refuses to admit it, while Korea and China remain extremely aware of what the Japanese Empire did in their countries.
The only good Japanese politician
He seems to be pretty based, his party is much better than the JCP.
how so? From their wiki (I know not the best) they seem like typical left libs? and are a split from the Liberal Party
They are usually pro-china, very anti-us and anti-ldp, socdems. They were the more far-left part of the Liberal Party who refused to merge with the Democratic Party.
I used to be a big ol Japan nerd as a kid bc of early anime and jrpgs. As I got older I realized Japan really kind of sucks, mainly due to the intense xenophobia.
Anyways, I remember meeting some Japanophile girl who had come back from a semester abroad and brought up the xenophobia stuff and they couldn’t even talk about it to me. I dunno how you read about the lives of immigrants in Japan (not even talking about westerners, it’s really folks immigrating from other parts of Asia that have it bad) and not realize your starry-eyed views of Japan arent seeing the full picture
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