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What’s better: being culturally distinct and having a failing society (it’s certainly failing for some people), or allowing some more immigration and adapting?

• richardknop 9y ago
  But they are not a failing society. Japan is one of the most popular and desirable places, it has very high standard of living, almost no violent crime. It’s their country and they are not obliged to open the gates to immigration if they don’t want to. It’s one of basic principles of a nation state, that you can control your borders and not let foreign people in if you don’t want to.
• titanix2 9y ago
  It could be better because the "failing" you described is a very different set of problems than those coming with large immigration. Just look at Western Europe, Sweden or Paris to see how bad things could go in only a few decades. I would totally prefer living in a more dire economic state rather than "adapting" my lifestyle to the immigrants (which is sadly already the case in my country and that includes extensive airport-like checking at a lot of place because of terror attacks, amongst other things).
• nostalgeek 9y ago
  > What’s better: being culturally distinct and having a failing society (it’s certainly failing for some people), or allowing some more immigration and adapting? I find your comment curious considering the context of this article Japan will be fine. it's already an overpopulated Archipelago so they do not need immigration. There is nothing wrong with wanting to preserve one's culture and way of life. Japan isn't a failing society by any standards, and certainly not the american one.
• scottlocklin 9y ago
  Your comment seems even more curious: allowing more immigration will prevent old Japanese ladies from going to jail because they're lonely? Citations needed.