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What do you mean by "don't play sufficiently well with immigrants"? Japan is very easy to emigrate to if you have skills (for many visas defined as an undergra
by johnwalkr 4y ago
What do you mean by "don't play sufficiently well with immigrants"?
Japan is very easy to emigrate to if you have skills (for many visas defined as an undergrad degree). There is no requirement to hire locally first, the process is streamlined based on a points system it's only a several weeks to get a visa and as little as 1 year to get permanent residency.
It's also easy to go to university there and stay, or emigrate as a low-level blue collar worker. There's a language barrier but for things like immigration, taxes, help in daily life, most cities offer support in 5+ languages. It is missing the lottery system of the US however.
- midoridensha 4y agoIt's true that Japan has a very permissive immigration system for high-skill immigrants, because it wants more people like that to help the economy. Japan has a shortage of technical workers, particularly in IT. And I agree, it's done a really good job of providing support for foreigners, better than what I saw in America which is supposedly immigrant-friendly (but not really). However, if this shortage didn't exist and the economy was humming along just fine without any immigration, these lax immigration laws would not be there. Japan used to be very hard to immigrate to prior to this century.