Not too be too glib but this reminds me of one of my pet truisms: "If things were different, then things would be different." Japan is way more insular than t

Not too be too glib but this reminds me of one of my pet truisms: "If things were different, then things would be different." Japan is way more insular than the US [1]. You can theorize about what might happen if we didn't have net immigration but it's largely irrelevant because we do. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/world/insular-japan-needs-but-resists-immigration.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/world/insular-japan-needs...