>The Japanese population trend is unsustainable with long term growth. There are plenty of people in Tokyo/Osaka who can come to Hokkaido. If the jobs pay well

>The Japanese population trend is unsustainable with long term growth. There are plenty of people in Tokyo/Osaka who can come to Hokkaido. If the jobs pay well, they will. Japan owes it to an entire generation who were left out in the "employment ice age." Japanese are very smart, can be trained, and should get first shot at the jobs. >Maybe they will find people to relocate to satisfy the labor needs? They're notoriously anti-immigration. According to western media. I (a gaijin) marched in the "anti-immigrant" rally recently myself. I was welcomed to do so. Nobody here wants to see foreigners coming in that destroy vending machines and just start building shanty towns on other peoples' property. Good gaijin are welcomed, bad ones need to leave. >So unless they have a growing labor pool that can sustain this it's going to be hard. That's not going to be a problem simply based on the crazy property prices in Kita Hiroshima next door to Chitose. People are obviously coming.