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Maybe this will make Japan warm up to the idea of more immigration. Just kidding, of course...
by bayesian_horse 8y ago
Maybe this will make Japan warm up to the idea of more immigration.
Just kidding, of course...
- nonamechicken 8y agoActually, they seem to be warming up. There was a report a few months back that they want to bring 200k IT professionals from India. Not sure if they actually mean that though. >Japan will open up its doors to about two lakh IT professionals from India, and issue green cards to settle down in Japan and support the country's rapidly expanding IT infrastructure, said Shigeki Maeda, Executive Vice President at Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), a government body, here on Thursday. https://m.indiatimes.com/news/india/forget-america-japan-has-2-lakh-jobs-for-indian-techies-will-issue-green-cards-to-settle-down-341149.html https://m.indiatimes.com/news/india/forget-america-japan-has...
- lotsofpulp 8y agoHaving had experience in both cultures, I can’t imagine two more opposite cultures. One is extremely deferential to others, the other you have to think about yourself first otherwise you won’t get anywhere. At least in public interactions.
- bayesian_horse 8y agoMy maybe slightly pessimistic view of Japanese attitudes toward immigration is that they will try to keep the Indians in a state of limbo, ready to deport them at the drop of a hat. Which of course won't work at these kind of numbers, anyway.
- DaiPlusPlus 8y agoCynically, I note they’ll be easy to spot in a crowd in Tokyo...
- 05 8y ago> will try to keep the Indians in a state of limbo, ready to deport them at the drop of a hat. Which of course won't work at these kind of numbers, anyway Well, worked for the US with H1B/20 year wait time for EB2
- nonamechicken 8y agoThe article mentions how they plan to handle it. >The Japanese government, Maeda said, will be issuing Green Cards for highly skilled professionals, the first of its kind in the world, thereby, providing people to get permanent resident status in as short as one year. This is one of the fastest granted right of residence in the world.
- hnauz 8y agoIt would be better if they gave incentives to their own for having children.
- bayesian_horse 8y agoWhy would that be better? If that worked, it will take 20 to 30 years to see any improvement in the workforce, but will cost a lot up-front. However, financial incentives have never worked. In fact, I don't know of a single political measure which has significantly raise birth rates. The only way that might work would be to discourage women's education, which of course nobody wants (I hope...). Children are massively expensive, especially to the parents. Parents, especially those who work, can't be "compensated" for the work, costs and risks of raising children. The motivation to raise children is entirely irrational from the perspective of the individual.
- asianthrowaway 8y agoBecause immigrants are here to stay. This will forever change the demographic composition of Japan. I think one only has to look at Europe to see that mass immigration of low skilled labor from foreign cultures does a lot of harm in the long run.
- bayesian_horse 8y agoSo far the immigration of low skilled workers has worked out quite well here in Germany. We still have a better social welfare system, better health care (overall), free university and so on... Turkish, Italian and Polish immigrants, most of them unskilled at arrival, have contributed hugely to Germany's success in the past century, and they still do. The "long term harm" is blown well out of proportion, and to ignore that history is at best dishonest...
- untog 8y agoEurope has had mass migration for hundreds of years, and hasn't suffered from it. The whole idea of Europe being invaded is overblown nonsense.