Foreign Workers: Japan quietly prepares for more immigration

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1. Let me guess:

   * Temporary only
   * No path to permanent residency or citizenship
   * Exploitative working conditions with little/no means to report mistreatment

2. The worst kind of immigration, of course. Guest workers on fixed term visas and menial salaries where the manpower agency takes over half their pay. Even Toyota is shipping in hundreds of Indians in waves to toil in their factories. Japan has never lost its colonial attitude to the rest of Asia.

3. I hope Japan will not make the same mistake as European countries, especially France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, the UK (also Turkey).

4. They can’t even hold shit together when it comes to immigration law and still wondering my there aren’t many foreigners willing to work there.

5. problem is that it is almost impossible to find jobs without japanese language skills, even in IT of FIN

   I am sure lot of skilled people would like to experience working in Japan but there is no chance of getting a job

6. A lot of extremely qualified and extremely well educated people might be interested if Japan were. Too bad they’re tripling down on economic and population decline forever.

7. Welcome developing country workers! The infinite is possible if you work for 800 yen an hour. Also don’t ask about permanent residence… it’s a silly thing.

8. Not at a 141 yen to the dollar their not.

9. Damn so many racists in this sub

10. Jokes on Japan,

    Everyone’s TFR is declining and most is below replacement level.

    This might work for the next 10 years, but unless they jack up TFRs, they are still even more screwed as migrants dry up