Begrudgingly, Japan is beginning to accept that it needs more immigrants

[Tyrianth]

rofl. "importing" a productive person still means accepting an immigrant. an immigrant can be in a country on different visas, that is if they are there legally. it's either a working visa, or an immigration visa, or a student visa. they've still immigrated there, either temporary or permanently.

Immigrants are specifically people who moved countries permanently. There is no such thing as a temporary immigrant.

[Deleted]

No, they do not.
They need more productive people.
They can either raise native productivity, or the can 'import' productive people.
They do not need 'immigrants'.

That is immigrants, I love that the word now has such a negative association that people wont even use it for it's original purpose.

It's now used to label certain ethnic groups and not in a positive manner.

Besides, most of the people labeled immigrants are actually refugees, be it for economic reasons, or humanitarian ones.

Get your words straight. Anyone not born japanese moving there to live and work is an immigrant, regardless of your personal opinion.

[announced]

they just need to import more Mexicans, or make much more efficient robots for the immigrant jobs like farm labour/crops/etc.

[Kraenen]

Good god that country is already filled enough as it is. Just let it pass and the following generations (which will be working in an AI dominated environment) will pick up the slack.

[Kapadons]

Sure, it's all about that, and has nothing to do with falling fertility rates that will eventually lead to massive pension deficits and an insufficient workforce.

Remove the pension benefits. BOOM! Problem solved. Pensioners don't like? Well you can go back to work. The other problem is solved now too.

This notion that you shouldn't have to work after a certain age is ludicrous

[Grimbold21]

Im sure that a few posters in this forum that'd be willing to volunteer...

[Spectral]

I don't think claiming they "need" more immigrants is really all that plausible.

More to the point though, this shouldn't be interpreted as at all consistent with the prevailing open-borders sentiment that any ol' immigrants will do and the most important thing is just growing a population.

[Medusa Cascade]

Im sure that a few posters in this forum that'd be willing to volunteer...

Yup, wonder if the Sky Tree has any cleaner jobs available...

[Grimbold21]

Yup, wonder if the Sky Tree has any cleaner jobs available...

But you'd have to settle for real japanese girls though.

[Medusa Cascade]

But you'd have to settle for real japanese girls though.

I fail to see the issue

[Afrospinach]

How can they have birthrate issues? 98% of JAV is nothing but super rape creampies.

I uh, guess it is better than the real thing?

[Shadowspire]

Que every weaboo nerd thinking they'll be a big shot over there cause they watched all the animes.

Japan is a small as mass of islands, maybe instead of trying to fill with immigrants they could work more on youths, this seems to be a double edge thing for them. Thier youth isn't procreating or working as much, probably cause of impossible standards and instead of fixing that they want to just get outside work?

I hate when any country does this, it's shown Time and time again immigration causes spiked problems and long term tensions. Let the old die out, have a small population for a while and I'm sure it will spring back if they did changes that lowered some crazy high standards. Again this goes for any first world nation.

[Gamevizier]

Immigrants are specifically people who moved countries permanently. There is no such thing as a temporary immigrant.

maybe in YOUR dictionary. asylum seeking for example is a type of temporary immigration.

[Strangebrew]

I volunteer.

[Theodarzna]

To paraphrase Christopher Caldwell,

If a country can be the same with different people in it, and if not, I wonder whether something one loves is being taken from them.

To whose interests are the politicians serving? What is their purpose if their only goal is the GDP number.

[Vivapin8]

"...Indian-run kebab shop—the latter complete with leaflets promoting Islam..." GG Japan inc anime with Burkas!!

[DJ117]

Or do like Saudi Arabia and the other oil states; slavery.

[Medusa Cascade]

"...Indian-run kebab shop—the latter complete with leaflets promoting Islam..." GG Japan inc anime with Burkas!!

Muslims are quite well integrated in Japan as far as I'm aware

[Theodarzna]

Or do like Saudi Arabia and the other oil states; slavery.

Shhhhhhh Slavery is a lot like saying the N-word. Its only bad when White people do it.

[Tyrianth]

maybe in YOUR dictionary. asylum seeking for example is a type of temporary immigration.

No, immigrants are permanent in everyone's definition. The dictionary, the governments, wikipedia. You are the outlier.

http://internationaloffice.berkeley....t_vs_immigrant

If the asylee is allowed to live within the country permanently then they are an immigrant. If they are only granted to remain for a set amount of time then they are not an immigrant. There is no such thing as a temporary immigrant.