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Japan has been closed to both tourists and immigrants for over two years. That’s bound to have an effect on population growth. Some tourists always end up stay

by pavlov 5y ago

Japan has been closed to both tourists and immigrants for over two years. That’s bound to have an effect on population growth. Some tourists always end up staying and contributing to population growth: meet a local, get married, the usual.

yakak 5y ago
That sounds incredibly hard in Japan. I would think a lot more dual nationality marriages take the Japanese citizen abroad.
- AlchemistCamp 5y ago
  It’s the reverse. The majority of the couples live in Japan. The most common origin of the foreign spouse is from China (where naturalization is much more difficult if not impossible), followed by Korea and the Philippines (where there are fewer job opportunities).
phreack 5y ago
And with no roadmap to reopen for the rest of the year at least, and considering they've always treated immigrants and descendants of immigrants a second class citizens, it does look like they just don't want foreigners at all and not because of health concerns.
- aidog 5y ago
  First tour groups will be allowed in next month, so that's outdated
- deleted 5y ago
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- alephnan 5y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku > And with no roadmap to reopen for the rest of the year at least The PM just indicated otherwise this week. > don't want foreigners at all and not because of health concerns. Well, the sentiment is that foreigners = don’t wear mask. And don’t wear mask = health concerns. Japanese people will be caught with masks in a middle of the forest with no one around for miles. Most of the Japanese population is vaccinated now, but the vast majority of people don’t wear masks, whereas an order of magnitude more of foreigners disproportionately do not wear masks. https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/uiwit7/getting_tired_of_masks_how_much_longer/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/uiwit7/getting_t...
  - selimthegrim 5y ago
    “majority…do wear masks,…” methinks
    - alephnan 5y ago
      Ah yes, sorry. Thank you for the correction.
eunos 5y ago
> meet a local, get married, the usual Think that number is incredibly small, only a couple thousand at most.

by pavlov 5y ago

yakak 5y ago

That sounds incredibly hard in Japan. I would think a lot more dual nationality marriages take the Japanese citizen abroad.

AlchemistCamp 5y ago
It’s the reverse. The majority of the couples live in Japan. The most common origin of the foreign spouse is from China (where naturalization is much more difficult if not impossible), followed by Korea and the Philippines (where there are fewer job opportunities).

phreack 5y ago

And with no roadmap to reopen for the rest of the year at least, and considering they've always treated immigrants and descendants of immigrants a second class citizens, it does look like they just don't want foreigners at all and not because of health concerns.

aidog 5y ago
First tour groups will be allowed in next month, so that's outdated
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alephnan 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku > And with no roadmap to reopen for the rest of the year at least The PM just indicated otherwise this week. > don't want foreigners at all and not because of health concerns. Well, the sentiment is that foreigners = don’t wear mask. And don’t wear mask = health concerns. Japanese people will be caught with masks in a middle of the forest with no one around for miles. Most of the Japanese population is vaccinated now, but the vast majority of people don’t wear masks, whereas an order of magnitude more of foreigners disproportionately do not wear masks. https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/uiwit7/getting_tired_of_masks_how_much_longer/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf https://www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/comments/uiwit7/getting_t...
- selimthegrim 5y ago
  “majority…do wear masks,…” methinks
  - alephnan 5y ago
    Ah yes, sorry. Thank you for the correction.

eunos 5y ago

> meet a local, get married, the usual Think that number is incredibly small, only a couple thousand at most.