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I completely agree with your assessment and I was in the same boat where I wanted to live there despite all of that. And while I do believe that having a more

I completely agree with your assessment and I was in the same boat where I wanted to live there despite all of that. And while I do believe that having a more open immigration policy may be beneficial (it's practically the cheat code for declining populations), I genuinely believe they would do much more if they focused on strengthening their social safety net (unemployment, parental leaves), cracking down on the toxic work cultures (much more aggressively, not in the current way, where they favor employers over employees and use social shame for everything, although that's Japanese culture in a sense ...), and making family minded policies (massive tax breaks or direct aid for children)

midoridensha 3y ago
Japan already has most of the things you're asking for. It's really hard to get fired from a salaried job in Japan, they have parental leave, there is direct aid for children plus tax breaks (and more coming soon). The main problem is the toxic work culture (too much overwork mainly), and that's easing up now as the dinosaurs age out and younger people take over, though they still have a long way to go. Japan has the most open immigration policy in the world for skilled workers. But it's a hard place to immigrate to because of the language barrier.