Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?
Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?
First, there is no “wrestling”. The policy is clear. Second, the only way to fix declining population is to increase permanent residence, which means either a Permanent Residence Visa or citizenship. But it takes 10 years for Permanent Residence, and Japan bans dual citizenship. Work visas do not fix the problem. But work visas are popular because immigrants can be treated as slave labor.
In other words, the author of that article has done a small amount of research but is actually being far to generous to a xenophobic and racist government that’s enabling the abuse of foreign laborers.
Of course that’s not the only way, how did any population grow in the past? Not just by bringing in people from outside.
Another way is to have children, but that means supporting parents. Just seems silly to say migration “is the only way”.
The problem is that they need workers now and not in 20 years.
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I think they are also missing the fact that there are sections of Japan’s society that would rather see it shrink (collapse) and retain its Nihon-ness than be diluted by outside influences.
And that’s their right, and not unexpected either.
I think by “wrestling” they mean the general attitude towards foreigners, not the policy.
not for children of mixed parents