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Immigration laws in Japan are very lax now. If you have highly-valued skills and get a job here, you get a 5-year visa, and can get permanent residence in 1 or
by midoridensha 4y ago
Immigration laws in Japan are very lax now. If you have highly-valued skills and get a job here, you get a 5-year visa, and can get permanent residence in 1 or 3 years if you want, and can naturalize after 5 years. There's no visa caps, green card lotteries, etc. The only problem is that not that many people want to come here, and there's not that many applicable jobs anyway, but demand for tech workers is much greater than supply at the moment.
Aside from skilled workers, they've eased up a lot on the unskilled workers, so there's many from SE Asian nations like Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam working in service positions. Of course, westerners who come here probably don't notice this because they think all Asians look alike...
- bratbag 4y agoIt's not about the laws, but rather the casual racism.
- midoridensha 4y agoI haven't noticed it. What I have noticed is internet commenters who have never even been to Japan, let alone lived here, talking about the "casual racism" that they think is so common here just because they read someone else on the internet make that claim. I see this in probably every discussion about Japan either here or especially on Reddit.
- JCharante 4y agoWell I spent enough time there as a tourist to notice the casual racism. I don't see what's so wrong with pointing it out.
- midoridensha 4y agoWhat did you notice exactly? I live here and I don't see what people like you are talking about.