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Demographics. An aging population with little or no immigration.

tuatoru 5y ago
And what immigration there is, is mostly under Japan's equivalent of the H1B, the "technical intern" program, except for less-skilled occupations, and in practice the immigrants are often used as severely underpaid factory workers who contribute negligible demand. 1. Foreign residents: big growth in Chinese and Vietnamese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Foreign_residents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Foreign_... 2. https://www.jitco.or.jp/en/regulation/index.html https://www.jitco.or.jp/en/regulation/index.html "The particulars of the Technical Intern Training Program are intended to form employment relationships between corporations, sole proprietors, and other businesses in Japan with technical intern trainees so that the trainees can acquire, master, or enhance Skills etc. that would be difficult to acquire in their home countries." 3. https://www.verite.org/japan-titp-white-paper/ https://www.verite.org/japan-titp-white-paper/ "In addition to debt related to recruitment fees and/or deposits, some respondents also reported wage withholding and compulsory savings programs. It was also reported that some Japanese employers, at times in cooperation with Chinese recruiters, withheld up to 70 percent of trainees’ wages for “compulsory savings” that would be forfeited should trainees leave their positions prior to completion of three years in the TITP. Some trainees reported threats of violence and deportation for advocating for themselves or failing to meet employers’ demands. Finally, trainees also described wages that failed to reach even half of the minimum wage, working hours above legal limits, poor living conditions, and hazardous working conditions." [emphasis added]
zaik 5y ago
Could you elaborate?
- UncleOxidant 5y ago
  As people get older they tend not to spend as much - that's part of it.
imtringued 5y ago
Isn't it weird that companies import immigrant labor to cut wages and yet having no immigration didn't benefit Japan at all?

And what immigration there is, is mostly under Japan's equivalent of the H1B, the "technical intern" program, except for less-skilled occupations, and in practice the immigrants are often used as severely underpaid factory workers who contribute negligible demand. 1. Foreign residents: big growth in Chinese and Vietnamese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Foreign_residents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#Foreign_... 2. https://www.jitco.or.jp/en/regulation/index.html https://www.jitco.or.jp/en/regulation/index.html "The particulars of the Technical Intern Training Program are intended to form employment relationships between corporations, sole proprietors, and other businesses in Japan with technical intern trainees so that the trainees can acquire, master, or enhance Skills etc. that would be difficult to acquire in their home countries." 3. https://www.verite.org/japan-titp-white-paper/ https://www.verite.org/japan-titp-white-paper/ "In addition to debt related to recruitment fees and/or deposits, some respondents also reported wage withholding and compulsory savings programs. It was also reported that some Japanese employers, at times in cooperation with Chinese recruiters, withheld up to 70 percent of trainees’ wages for “compulsory savings” that would be forfeited should trainees leave their positions prior to completion of three years in the TITP. Some trainees reported threats of violence and deportation for advocating for themselves or failing to meet employers’ demands. Finally, trainees also described wages that failed to reach even half of the minimum wage, working hours above legal limits, poor living conditions, and hazardous working conditions." [emphasis added]

zaik 5y ago

Could you elaborate?

UncleOxidant 5y ago
As people get older they tend not to spend as much - that's part of it.

imtringued 5y ago

Isn't it weird that companies import immigrant labor to cut wages and yet having no immigration didn't benefit Japan at all?