Why Japan Is Abandoning Its “Zero Immigration” Policy

Japan is facing an existential challenge - and its fight against it will change the country forever.
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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - The Hermit Kingdom
05:00 - Sponsored Segment
06:15 - The Trap of Zero Immigration
Selected sources and further reading:
issuu.com/marlborough_college...
www.pewresearch.org/global/20....
www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/fe...
www.thecollector.com/edo-japa...
www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/a0...
www.imf.org/en/Publications/f...
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14...
www.japantimes.co.jp/news/202...
unherd.com/thepost/number-of-....
www.migrationpolicy.org/artic... foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/23/...
bigthink.com/the-past/japan-s...
www.economist.com/asia/2022/0...
www.jcer.or.jp/english/histor...
www.csis.org/analysis/resolve...
thediplomat.com/2022/01/japan...

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  • @ExplainedwithDom
    @ExplainedwithDom10 ай бұрын

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  • @hitoshir4886

    @hitoshir4886

    10 ай бұрын

    (× )Why Japan Is Abandoning Its “Zero Immigration” Policy (〇)Japan Is continuing Its “Zero Immigration” Policy

  • @christopherjohnferrer3771

    @christopherjohnferrer3771

    10 ай бұрын

    I'm worried Japan will eat wokeness and LGTVQ habitat.

  • @MayaMaya-tj7kw

    @MayaMaya-tj7kw

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@christopherjohnferrer3771Japan has been gay for time immemorial, wakashus and same sex relationships were a common thing. Oiran ( female prostitutes) would service both men and women. As for wokeness, remember that racist who are Japanese will discriminate against white folks for not being Japanese. White people are a minority and will remain a minority in Japan, wokeness will help you, not hurt you

  • @christopherjohnferrer3771

    @christopherjohnferrer3771

    10 ай бұрын

    @@MayaMaya-tj7kw You American agent? You want to destroy Asian people with your immoral beliefs?

  • @maegalroammis6020

    @maegalroammis6020

    9 ай бұрын

    Hello, Can I have your attention? i've got an harassment issue in the comment section of someone called majora320. i am being harassed by one individual called Gordon Graham who make insulting , and intimidating remarks towards me just because i said something that don't please him and he force himself to respond me. he act like if he control any replies while it isn't even his own section. he doesn't understand he shouldn't impose his point of view . please , somebody report or block him. I need help.

  • @kurtlangberg5886
    @kurtlangberg588610 ай бұрын

    If you want people to have more kids, don’t just throw money at them and say “we’ll pay you to have children!” You need work reforms that make more room for LIFE. Life can’t be about being a cog in a corporate machine until you’re too broken or worn down to function. You need to have a culture that focuses on family. Reasonable workdays, weekends, family sick leave, seasonal vacations that you can spend with your family. Time to go on a honeymoon vacation with your newly wed spouse. But no, the Japanese work culture is all-consuming.

  • @alokozay300

    @alokozay300

    10 ай бұрын

    I'm no economist but won't having people work less hours and less intensity also worsen the economy Edit: got the awnser

  • @dominicperez3777

    @dominicperez3777

    10 ай бұрын

    That's corporatocracy / corporate capitalism for ya!

  • @eulyer3722

    @eulyer3722

    10 ай бұрын

    Powerful words from a random that shields himself in anonymity; in what country do you live were endemic people still have more than 2 kids ?

  • @t4squared

    @t4squared

    10 ай бұрын

    Europe tried that, and their birth rates are still declining

  • @Ichigoeki

    @Ichigoeki

    10 ай бұрын

    @@alokozay300 Well yes and no. Working less hours per week but actually WORKING during those hours instead of just sitting there, waiting for your boss to go home so you can go home, or to "keep up appearances" of actually working is provably more beneficial than just "working" longer hours. You can look to the Nordics for proof of this.

  • @takosdon7754
    @takosdon775411 ай бұрын

    I could see a future of foreigners who take these videos in stride, go to Japan become depressed due to the gap between ideals and reality and eventually criticize Japan. The Japanese people have always been, are and always will be a conservative people. It is best not to have excessive expectations.

  • @piergiorgioscollo7163

    @piergiorgioscollo7163

    11 ай бұрын

    "Always will be" simply isn't a thing. Japanese conservatism has very specific cultural roots, which will eventually fade away.

  • @takosdon7754

    @takosdon7754

    11 ай бұрын

    @@piergiorgioscollo7163 It's a simple question but why do you foreigners want the Japanese to accept foreigners so much? Your foreigners' unrequited love for Japan and Japan is at a pathological level.

  • @yourdissapointeddaddy2057

    @yourdissapointeddaddy2057

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah as long as the old people are still alive Japan will remain conservatism. Japan’s elderly is what ruined Japan’s economic future. Japan is too scared to make risks because it’s part of their culture to avoid change.

  • @strollingoutlands1041

    @strollingoutlands1041

    11 ай бұрын

    they siphon too much health insurance, in consequence young people only see bearing babies as an economic burden in their personal life. if only japanese just cared for their own elderly, there wont be too much home for the elderly that will demand more insurance from young people. so it is the same old story, once families are broken, it will have devastating effects on the economy.

  • @jordanjohnson9866

    @jordanjohnson9866

    11 ай бұрын

    Nah. Not always will be a conservative. /

  • @amabiko
    @amabiko9 ай бұрын

    Globalism is horrible. I hope that all peoples of the world will remain unchanged and retain their unique cultures.

  • @isaacthegoat1432

    @isaacthegoat1432

    8 ай бұрын

    Their work culture is why Japan is in a population decline.

  • @agrajyadav2951

    @agrajyadav2951

    8 ай бұрын

    Too late

  • @scorpiovenator_4736

    @scorpiovenator_4736

    4 күн бұрын

    Colonization ended that for good

  • @carlitoab
    @carlitoab4 ай бұрын

    Japan should stay Japanese!

  • @mvslice

    @mvslice

    3 ай бұрын

    They literally can't. That's the problem

  • @notmesuueman726
    @notmesuueman72610 ай бұрын

    My wife decided that it wouldn't be a bad idea for us to move to Japan because she wants the kids to grow up with somewhat similar values to hers and to me it wasn't an issue due to easier immigration policies. Got to see more of her family and better my Japanese skills. One thing was very commonly brought up whenever i had discussions with my brother in-law about kids was lack of time and how expensive it was. He would leave for work at 6am and come back 10pm if he wasn't out drinking with coworkers, he'd literally say that I was lucky to have a job outside of the country because of how flexible my schedules are, im basically in my kid's life 24/7 and he called that a rarity. The issue is work hours and even work enjoyment, he and his colleagues hate their work but cannot survive without it

  • @tonig2757

    @tonig2757

    10 ай бұрын

    Japan's education system is on the ultra-conservative side. That's pretty much where the "stand up to get hammered down" thing is born. If that's ok with you it's all fine though, no system is perfect and all of them have the potential to cause life long trauma to your children.

  • @redhidinghood9337

    @redhidinghood9337

    10 ай бұрын

    It's crazy how apparently japan developed is but at the same time has working standards worse than some 2nd world countries

  • @gordonbgraham

    @gordonbgraham

    10 ай бұрын

    We've raised 5 kids in Japan on my modest salary without my wife working. I work 8:30~5pm, 5 days a week. I also run an elite youth ice hockey program with 70 kids. We practice three nights a week and on Saturday and Sunday. I would say roughly 90% of the kids are driven to hockey by their fathers. OECDs numbers show that Japan ranks 27th in the world for hours worked per annum. Japan Rail's numbers corroborate that as their site shows that the evening rush our is busiest between the hour of 5~6pm, meaning that's when most people are returning home. It's estimated that 70% of Japanese workers in Tokyo take the train to work.

  • @gordonbgraham

    @gordonbgraham

    10 ай бұрын

    @@tonig2757 We've raised 5 kids in Japan, all of whom have been through or are currently in the public school system. We couldn't be happier with the care and attention they've received. My eldest daughter is currently on full scholarship at Tsukuba University in micro-biology, my eldest son went to a trade school. Upon graduating he and a friend rented a lot at a port in Kobe and began a car export business, buying cars in number at auction, doing the necessary mechanical work on them, then shipping them overseas for profit. The discipline and focus they'd acquired from their educational upbringing has served them well. My son at 22 makes 3 times what I make and he only has a high school education! The only "trauma" any of my kids got from school was they day they graduated and had to say goodbye to their wonderful school days.

  • @matthewalvarez6884

    @matthewalvarez6884

    10 ай бұрын

    Just depends on your job. I work in Tokyo work from 8am to 4:30pm. Thats it. 12 weeks of vacation time

  • @majora320
    @majora32010 ай бұрын

    Japan needs to change its working conditions if they want to permanently attract foreign workers. As it stands their work culture demands that you practically sell your soul to a company, which means you have no life outside of your job or school. This is also a contributing factor to the decline in birthrates. People can't have babies if they don't have enough free time to pursue and develop relationships.

  • @Qqxx22

    @Qqxx22

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah Japan’s work culture terrifies me, at least what I’ve heard of it, and really makes me think twice if I want to move over there. I saw a documentary about japans work life balance and it featured a teacher who basically worked every hour of every day and he eventually worked himself to death. One day he just didn’t wake up. His wife stated he was always comparing about beings “so tired.” Very very sad situation. Nobody from the business end will miss you, especially true once your replaced and position filled.

  • @HaohmaruHL

    @HaohmaruHL

    10 ай бұрын

    Sadly, the working conditions won't change because that's ingrained in their culture and a part of their life and world view. It's not just work but starts early age because Japan's education system brings up mindless drones so by the time they've graduated from a university they were a blank slate to become a bendable company slave. They have no reference level to how working conditions can be since they have never experienced it the other way. It's a very self-centric island nation who doesn't know anything the world outside Japan even in the age of Internet. And they don't really want to know and mainly focus on themselves. Japanese are very resistant to change and keep saying "that's how we've always done it". I don't wanna say that's its almost like living in the Matrix or the 1984 but still. Those who went abroad and did experience better working conditions have decided to stay there and only come home to Japan from time to time to visit their friends and families. When I joined a Japanese IT company I was expecting at least some progressiveness. Turned out it's full of people in their 20-40s who have already adopted the way of thinking of a 70 year old Japanese about self-sacrifice, trying hard for the sake of the organization and the society. I've been here only for 6 years but talking to different people here and there I feel that this cycle won't change. At least not in the near future.

  • @Qqxx22

    @Qqxx22

    10 ай бұрын

    @@HaohmaruHL thanks for your input. What your said here is basically what my consensus is: long hours, no social life, company first, work your self to the bone mentality, superiors at work are always right even if they’re blatantly wrong, one is considered lazy if they leave on time/ set firm boundaries. Sounds soul crushing to me and I would not last very long. Racially since my new mentality towards work is “this is not my life and I will prioritize my wellbeing over the company.” People have recommended if living in Japan one should work for a western company with western work culture/ expectations. Or live in Japan work remotely through IT gig or whatever for a western company.

  • @majora320

    @majora320

    10 ай бұрын

    @@HaohmaruHL unfortunately everything you said is true. These things will eventually change, especially if foreigners come into the workforce. However, change in Japan is a very slow thing unless it is forced onto everyone. I have a deep admiration for Japan's culture and history, but its people don't deserve to suffer as they are now. What's worse is that many don't see the problem because of how normal it is in their society until they experience other cultures like you said.

  • @kinkobidoba9010

    @kinkobidoba9010

    10 ай бұрын

    Some of the European countries have both, which are work life balance and good salary. They still have low birthrate problem.

  • @greggvictorious968
    @greggvictorious96810 ай бұрын

    I've been living in Japan for seven years and just had to renew my work via. There are so many more restrictions being enforced that I would say the opposite is true.

  • @laflamejm271

    @laflamejm271

    10 ай бұрын

    Are you a teacher by any chance?

  • @greggvictorious968

    @greggvictorious968

    10 ай бұрын

    @@laflamejm271 I want to work multiple jobs but they're pigeonholing me into just being a teacher.

  • @earlysda

    @earlysda

    9 ай бұрын

    c@@chinachickensoup3796 china, Teaching is a stress free job???

  • @greggvictorious968

    @greggvictorious968

    9 ай бұрын

    @@chinachickensoup3796 You think teaching English in Japan is stress free? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! I'm sorry but if you only knew.

  • @greggvictorious968

    @greggvictorious968

    9 ай бұрын

    @@chinachickensoup3796 you heard wrong. Be glad you're a programmer.

  • @norihiro01
    @norihiro0110 ай бұрын

    Never forget that being a tourist is not the same as living and working in a country.

  • @cdn4767

    @cdn4767

    Ай бұрын

    I understood it very clear, it’s like telling me that Dubai is better than Sydney in touring, which it is, but it’s clear which place has better quality of life.

  • @FirstLastOne

    @FirstLastOne

    Ай бұрын

    @@cdn4767 Having lived most my life in Vancouver, visiting Japan over three decades, living in Tokyo for two years and visiting Sydney several time to compare, the ONLY factor that doesn't make it a fair comparison to put Dubai in there is RELIGION. Take that out of EVERY place on earth and then you can fairly compare apples to apples. If only humans would stop living with fiction ruling their lives.

  • @neisanland2503
    @neisanland250310 ай бұрын

    open doors but heavily and carefully verify who passes, Japan is known for it's low crime and amazing services. it needs to remain like that.

  • @anita.b

    @anita.b

    10 ай бұрын

    Japan is actually known for their warcrimes, pedos everywhere and super reactionary society (that is now declining)

  • @eduardomesquita4451

    @eduardomesquita4451

    10 ай бұрын

    This is a legit question…knowing that Japan and other Asian countries have this Shame culture (what I mean by that is appearances). Are the statistics about crime in Japan a true representation of what goes on there? Is it possible they reduce numbers on don’t inform correctly?

  • @rulesandregulations7192

    @rulesandregulations7192

    10 ай бұрын

    I found it ridiculous, low crime? As long as you think Japan is a sugar coated peace village and close your eyes, sure it is a country without much crime. There is crime everywhere like everywhere else. I would even say crime is done overboard in daylight but if you can't even see the obvious this comment is useless.

  • @asdfghjjhgf

    @asdfghjjhgf

    10 ай бұрын

    @@eduardomesquita4451 I don't think any country gives correct crime rate data. Even in the U.S., only about 5 % of all crimes are reported so It is impossible for the police to know all crimes.

  • @neisanland2503

    @neisanland2503

    10 ай бұрын

    @@rulesandregulations7192 low crime compared to western countries and europe.

  • @anzuchan
    @anzuchan11 ай бұрын

    The problem is, most jobs in Japan require capability to speak and read Japanese without so much conpensation. Unless you desire to work specifically in Japan for some reason, you'd rather learn English or something and go elsewhere. Although this monolingualism might have helped prevent serious brain drain from happening.

  • @freddyromariovasquezcairo2250

    @freddyromariovasquezcairo2250

    10 ай бұрын

    yeah but if you noticed the majority that goes to japan it's asian, like the chinese who have a similar language

  • @anzuchan

    @anzuchan

    10 ай бұрын

    @@freddyromariovasquezcairo2250 I don't think Chinese is proper example for that. Korean definetly is. But they are aging fast too. Other than Korean, I don't think there is any similar languages to Japanese outside of Japonic languages. Japonic languages don't have any confirmed genetic relationship with any other languages.

  • @freddyromariovasquezcairo2250

    @freddyromariovasquezcairo2250

    10 ай бұрын

    @@anzuchan I hear Chinese say that the kanji is the same in both countries. So that's a plus for a Chinese wanting to learn the language.

  • @anzuchan

    @anzuchan

    10 ай бұрын

    @@freddyromariovasquezcairo2250 Kanji is not quite the same. But yes, they have a head start reading. It's more like Vietnamese for most Europeans.

  • @JMB_focus

    @JMB_focus

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@freddyromariovasquezcairo2250Chinese launguage is different from Japanese launguage they are not at all similar it's like saying french and Korean si similar lol

  • @raymondrogers3929
    @raymondrogers392910 ай бұрын

    The citizens of Japan should decide Japan's future for the benefit of the Japanese people. Outsiders should respect this and the Japanese people should not allow outside pressure to compromise its culture and dictate policies towards Japan.

  • @gumerzambrano

    @gumerzambrano

    7 ай бұрын

    If it was up to the people they would still side with less foreigners despite a slowing economy

  • @iuliia8051

    @iuliia8051

    7 ай бұрын

    They can't afford it unfortunately. They are behind on everything and now they out of labor force as well. Literally dying out.

  • @hirrad

    @hirrad

    5 ай бұрын

    If this is your opinion, then you should import slaves not Skilled Worker immigrants.

  • @user-kl9th8rs7p
    @user-kl9th8rs7p6 ай бұрын

    日本人ですが、経済的に衰退してもいいので移民は入れないで欲しい。19世紀に無理矢理アメリカに突かれたから経済大国に今なっているが、細々と独自の文化で生きていきたい。日本を変えて移民してもらうのではなく日本的な生き方がしたい人のみ日本で住んでほしいと思う。

  • @armyan5556

    @armyan5556

    6 ай бұрын

    Multiculturalism has destroyed Europe

  • @aceonikuma

    @aceonikuma

    5 ай бұрын

    I respect this take. If I ever was to immigrate to Japan i would definitely adopt the Japan way of life.

  • @lpsinko9705

    @lpsinko9705

    5 ай бұрын

    transaltion "I'm Japanese, but I don't care if the economy declines, so I don't want immigrants to come in. We are now an economic powerhouse because we were forced to take over America in the 19th century, but we want to continue to live our lives with our own unique culture. Rather than having people change Japan and immigrate, I would like only people who want to live a Japanese way of life to live in Japan."

  • @nikolaizaicev9297

    @nikolaizaicev9297

    4 ай бұрын

    I beg your pardon? Economic superpower? You probably haven't looked at your national debt level in a while pal :D No one has anything against Japan becoming a poor country again, well, except maybe your children who will have to migrate or work for a bowl of soup will have something against that.. Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot that with a 50% probability you don't have any kids and won't have them in the future, then you are right, you really don't have anything to worry about.

  • @fatwombat2611

    @fatwombat2611

    4 ай бұрын

    Me too. I like Japanese culture and people. I think my children would do well to grow up in such a culture.

  • @TheNexCat
    @TheNexCat10 ай бұрын

    I’ve been in Japan as a Tourist and this is a wonderful place. However, I’m not sure about relocating here as I heard of hard-working culture that scares me.

  • @nazgulXVII

    @nazgulXVII

    10 ай бұрын

    The working culture is only one of the problems. The *huge* language barrier is another. Yet another is that the better part of the job market is closed to you unless you are a skilled technologist or speak Japanese fluently. Also, the work culture in most companies is not meritocratic: you have to just age to climb the ladder. But hey, the taxes are low, the food is great, the country is beautiful, the people are nice. So your mileage may vary, as they say.

  • @TheNexCat

    @TheNexCat

    10 ай бұрын

    @@nazgulXVII I’m still young and would love to learn a new language, so I don’t see it as a problem, rather than as an adventure. Taxes are good, yes. Overall I had a though of moving here, rather than in the UK or Europe as I find culture here more interesting

  • @ThePianist51

    @ThePianist51

    10 ай бұрын

    Toxic employee atmosphere hits the nail better. I mean: you can work 100% for 8 hours or 50% for 14 hours. That’s the actual reality.

  • @jerryjazzbo2845

    @jerryjazzbo2845

    10 ай бұрын

    It should scare you hard enough to think harder about it.

  • @4yearsago343

    @4yearsago343

    9 ай бұрын

    The hardworking culture in Japan makes the Japanese people's lives longer

  • @Kirigakurejones
    @Kirigakurejones10 ай бұрын

    Quite a bit of hyperbole here: they aren’t abandoning their policies. The foreigners I saw there, last week, were mostly tourists or those who have deep ties to the country. Japan will carefully pick and choose who to let in, and those coming in will be assimilated.

  • @nippolitica

    @nippolitica

    10 ай бұрын

    You cannot abandon policies you don't have. How do you define "deep ties to the country"? I had no ties to the country when I was given residency in 2008. Now, though, I obviously do have said ties. But many people come here without those ties--they have to create them. That's the immigrant experience.

  • @user-jc62a7v28

    @user-jc62a7v28

    10 ай бұрын

    저는 한국인입니다. 코로나19가 끝난 이후 많은 한국인들이 3년간 못 갔던 해외여행을 가고 있습니다. 지난달까지 총 500만명 정도가 출국했으며 거의 절반 정도는 가까운 나라인 일본으로 해외여행을 갑니다. 이것이 일본에 이민자가 많아보이는 이유입니다. 또한 관광지에 외국인이 있는건 어찌보면 당연합니다. 북한이 아닌 이상 이것은 어느 나라를 가도 똑같습니다.

  • @ssssssstssssssss
    @ssssssstssssssss10 ай бұрын

    Japan started changing the policy about 15 years ago. It’s not something that recent. The government cannot be too loud about it though because the people are nervous about immigration.

  • @DaniG.German883

    @DaniG.German883

    10 ай бұрын

    Rightfully nervous

  • @user-lx2ur5yk1d

    @user-lx2ur5yk1d

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly

  • @OlliTechDE
    @OlliTechDE9 ай бұрын

    Live in Japan for four years now. Really love the country, the people, the environment etc. The most thing I enjoy is having my calm. Nobody is annoying or disturbing you, in a good way. You can just live your life and be happy with your things. You can stay forever or return after years, it's completely up to you. Japan is a very relaxed country to live once you got use to it.

  • @Cha4k

    @Cha4k

    7 ай бұрын

    Well in 30 years hopefully it'll be more like downtown LA. Lots of noise, lots of violence and so much diversity!.

  • @gumerzambrano

    @gumerzambrano

    7 ай бұрын

    How was the work culture

  • @sharrablackfire7337
    @sharrablackfire733711 ай бұрын

    Saying Japan was more strict than North Korea is stupid hyperbole

  • @user-jc62a7v28

    @user-jc62a7v28

    10 ай бұрын

    North Korea😂😂😂😂

  • @limelightraver5690

    @limelightraver5690

    10 ай бұрын

    It’s just politically correct cope by bitter woke Westerners who can’t accept the reality that that Japan never has and never will join them in their multicultural suicide pact. Japan wants to remain Japan and not some soulless culturally suicidal, self hating husk like the West has become. Japan will be around long after the West has died by its own hand. But many “experts” in the West can’t accept that, nor will they be honest about their own true motives as to why they are so obsessed with the worthless pipe dream of Japan adopting complete open door immigration which is never going to happen and never will and when you really think about what presumptuous (and downright insulting) wishful thinking that is on the part of so many Western “intellectuals” it’s pretty laughable that they think this has even so much an inkling of not being dead on arrival. Meanwhile Japan, like the rest of Asia looks at the west quietly says “um... no... if you’re so hell-bent on killing yourself then you go off and die on your own if that is what you wish. Our culture will not commit suicide just because you self hating Westerners are so self-conscious about justifying what you’re doing to yourself that you feel the insecure need to dismantle your entire civilization on a whim because you feel guilty over things your ancestors did that you feel bad about, pathetic!. Piss off and die... literally! Ya silly suicidal self hating westerners!” I could never understand, when I was younger, why Japan refused to knowledge the war crimes they committed during the Second World War and my suspicions have only grown that a lot of it has to do with how they’ve seen us behave in the West for the last five decades as we engage in a disturbing self flagellating self-righteous circle jerk over muh racism, muh slavery, muh Indians muh oppression etc. The Japanese studied American history over the past 50 years and it scares the shit out of them what we’ve become when our entire culture is built upon obsessing over oppression and grievance and past wrong and now social cohesion is dead in America Canada, Britain, Australia, Europe. I wouldn’t be surprised if I were to find out that many of the people in Japan who deny Japanese war crimes during the Second World War, secretly know deep down that those atrocities truly were bad but feel like they couldn’t acknowledge it even if they wanted to for fear of beginning the 50 year slippery slope of turning as self hating as us and if that theory ever turns out to be the case I would not be surprised and you know what? considering that they’re still gonna have a country to be proud of in the future I don’t blame them for feeling the need to do that, I don’t blame them for wanting that at all. If that is what it costs then it’s just not worth it for them to give ground on this issue or any issue in the long run that would allow self-hatred to get it’s foot in the door and do to them what it is done to us for the last five decades. Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki today, two cities that were obliterated by nuclear bombs are more livable today then cities like Chicago and Detroit. Need I say more?

  • @user-qr1me2hj7z
    @user-qr1me2hj7z7 ай бұрын

    Here is a japanese uni student. Accepting tons of immegrants are very risky. It's just a solution for workers now, but government would be required regislation about it. As you know, Japan is really conservative, and it's so slow to make a dicision. How about pension for immegrants? Taxs? Right to vote? Japanese society might fall into chaos if government do nothing before changing immegration policy. Speaking honestly, I'm afraid of it. In these days, some foreign tourists and immegrants curse big problems for crims, annoyning behaviors, public safety, and so on. I don't want to shut out people who have interests of Japan, but I can't say welcom 100% at the same time.

  • @westvillage321

    @westvillage321

    7 ай бұрын

    俺は40才を過ぎた会社員だが、君のような大学生がいることに失望するよ。 どんなことにもプラス面とマイナス面がある。 あらゆる物事について言えることだが、プラス面を最大化し、マイナス面を最小化することに努力を傾けるべきだろう。 なぜ君は大学で学んでいるのか?何を目標にして学んでいるのか?もう一度自分に問いかけたほうがいい。

  • @Raccon_Detective.

    @Raccon_Detective.

    7 ай бұрын

    Also the reasons why the population got so low will still be around even with emigration ensuring the cycles continues, not to mention this is happening all over the world.

  • @user-qr1me2hj7z

    @user-qr1me2hj7z

    6 ай бұрын

    @@westvillage321 何が言いたいんですか?別に拒絶しているわけではありません。目先のメリットの前に、起こりうるデメリットを考慮すべきだと言っただけです。 マイナス面を最小化する←当たり前なんですけどwそのためにという話をしてるんです。40代のおじさんは私の2倍生きてるのに読解力は学生以下ですね。

  • @user-wd9wr6qv2n

    @user-wd9wr6qv2n

    Ай бұрын

    ⁠@@westvillage32121歳から言わせてほしい40過ぎの会社員なら分かるでしょ?ヨーロッパ諸国が移民によってどうなったか?パリやロンドンに行って来れば?日本もそうなってほしいの?それとも馬鹿なの?

  • @lilacvioletpurple

    @lilacvioletpurple

    Ай бұрын

    Understandable. I feel like immigration causes more problems to the citizens than it does to the government. However, when native citizens start voicing out their dissatisfaction with unforeseen problems that comes with immigration, the society will start facing many conflicts, so unless the government (and I'm saying any government really not just japan) starts of with a well studied, clear, fair to both immigrants and natives, and solid strategy (for not just the now but for the future) to integrate immigrants into a very conservative and homogeneous society, then the society is bound to split into half or even quarters and here comes the protests and racism and hate crimes alongside it as the cherry on top. As long as the government makes sure to protect the rights of both natives and immigrants and set strict rules from the start especially to the immigrants then maybe it could work for a while...

  • @CausallyExplained
    @CausallyExplained8 ай бұрын

    i want Japan to stay as it is. Europe is going downhill with all the immigration. As much as i want to live in Japan, i would still not want them to make it easy. Choose where you bring your people from and be very selective.

  • @coolioso808

    @coolioso808

    5 ай бұрын

    Japan will not stay as it is, nor will any country on Earth with human beings operating on a structurally unjust, unhealthy and unsustainable monetary-market based economy. Change is happening, immigration increase is inevitable and you can wish it away as much as you want but that won't help. But if you look under the rug, the system can be changed to so that people would be able to, and even prefer, to stay in their country because they can sustain a decent life there. Unfortunately, that can't happen over night, but some are talking about what "A Viable Society" would look like, such as Peter Joseph, Michael Tellinger and the channels such as Moneyless Society, World Beyond Capitalism, Second Thought and Our Changing Climate.

  • @nikolaizaicev9297

    @nikolaizaicev9297

    4 ай бұрын

    No immigration and be selective? Sure recipe for a death of economy. I recommend you to read the book of Adam Smith " Wealth of Nations" and to pay a special attention to the role of specialization in the growth of economy and wealth. Then maybe read the book of Marx " The Capital", to understand why Capitalist systems thrive and die after, which leads to the necessaty of immigration in order to extend the life of capitalist systems. And lastly, read something about system's theory and system's dynamics like Peter Senge's "The fifth discipline" which will give you an understanding that no amount of " I wish blah blah blah" will do anything against the flaws inbuilt in the systems we live now in. Japana has only 2 options now: 1. Continue to do what they do and slowly rot, getting back to underdeveloped poor economy. 2. Stop b....ching around and spread the legs, extending the survival of capitalist system for another 40-50 years before a revolution happens. Same goes for Europe and USA, that is why you see the inflow of immigrants in these Regions.

  • @kiranmulik456
    @kiranmulik45610 ай бұрын

    Japan also has to be careful who they are taking in their country..

  • @AnirbanGhosh-vo9vs

    @AnirbanGhosh-vo9vs

    2 ай бұрын

    For example which ethnicity and religion u talking about

  • @Joel86543

    @Joel86543

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@AnirbanGhosh-vo9vsHe's talking about muslims from middle east

  • @NicolasHaufe

    @NicolasHaufe

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@AnirbanGhosh-vo9vsmiddle eastern and north african Muslims

  • @MushrooMania888

    @MushrooMania888

    8 күн бұрын

    @@AnirbanGhosh-vo9vsyou should know that.

  • @AnirbanGhosh-vo9vs

    @AnirbanGhosh-vo9vs

    8 күн бұрын

    @@MushrooMania888 yes and i m also aware who is behnd all trouble wars and disrimination in the world

  • @ChicagoRonin
    @ChicagoRonin10 ай бұрын

    Just got back from a recent trip (my first in 30 years) and noticed a lot more foreign-born permanent residents living and working in Japan. And frankly, I felt like most people were nicer than i remembered. I went on a food tour in Osaka led by a British man who had emigrated to Japan and settled down with a Japanese wife and had two teenage daughters. An Australian couple on the tour asked me if I'd ever move to Japan. I replied I was hesitant because although I speak Japanese and was of Japanese ancestry, I'm not just American but half Korean. My tour guide chimed in and said that's becoming less of an issue, especially among younger generations. Left me with a lot to think about.

  • @gerardtolero7378

    @gerardtolero7378

    10 ай бұрын

    that's refreshing to hear

  • @linkskywalker5417

    @linkskywalker5417

    10 ай бұрын

    That scenario you just described was unthinkable 30 years ago.

  • @coolcobrax

    @coolcobrax

    10 ай бұрын

    This is probably stupid to ask but why does being half Korean have something to do with it?

  • @ChicagoRonin

    @ChicagoRonin

    10 ай бұрын

    @@coolcobrax Japan and Korea have a long and contentious relationship. Japan attempted to invade Korea in the 1600s and colonized it 1910-1945, during which they actually attempted to erase Korean culture (My mom was born in 1943 with a Japanese name). Koreans have long been discriminated in Japan. During the Great Kanto Eartquake of 1923, amid a wave of hysteria over immigrants supposedly commiting post-disaster crimes, Koreans were harassed, beaten and murdered. Ethnic Koreans born and raised in Japan are still discriminated against and many are denied Japanese citizenship. When I was a university student in Japan 30 years ago, I usually avoided mentioning I was Korean until I got to know people better. Today, however, I'm blown away by the sheer number of young Japanese who are into Korean culture, and the Korean-themed bars, restaurants and clubs around Tokyo.

  • @jmwintenn

    @jmwintenn

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ChicagoRonin pretty nice of you to leave out the fact korea raided and destroyed japan for centuries prior to that. dont act like korea is a victim,they're always the aggressor

  • @midlifecrisis7888
    @midlifecrisis788810 ай бұрын

    Because Immigration worked out so well for France 😂😂😂😂

  • @pedrofaria6236

    @pedrofaria6236

    10 ай бұрын

    agree, if Japan opens they are going to do a big mistake. In Japanese society is even harder to integrate immigrants

  • @IR-xy3ij

    @IR-xy3ij

    10 ай бұрын

    The French just love having their culture enriched 😂

  • @HornedGod66

    @HornedGod66

    2 ай бұрын

    Its The average iq of The immigrants that matters 😂

  • @TahoeCo
    @TahoeCo2 ай бұрын

    日本は別に大国になりたかったわけでも、なりたいわけでもありません。歴史的に日本の文化を守ろうとしたら、力をつけざるを得なかったのです。人口が減少しても、経済力が衰えても、日本として慎ましく、でも末永く存在したいと思っています。 移民に関しても、人種や能力は関係なく、日本の文化が好きでそれを後世へ受け継いで下さる方々ならば嬉しく思います。 多くは求めず慎み深く存在する事が日本にとっての幸せです。

  • @durveamod
    @durveamod9 ай бұрын

    I am an Indian, and we face racism in almost every country, but i can tell you Japanese people were the nicest people I have ever met. If you ask them one favor, they would do 10 other things as well for you. They are very respectful, I would most definitely want to go there again and if opportunity presents I would definitely love to work in Japan.

  • @MsDesiree39

    @MsDesiree39

    8 ай бұрын

    Many of your pple are also very racist, esp towards blacks and at times whites, don't even try that and making yourselves look innocent when you are not

  • @DeadlySashimi

    @DeadlySashimi

    5 ай бұрын

    I'm a Half Japanese living in Australia and I have some pretty good Indian friends, Indians are nice🗿🗿

  • @MsDesiree39

    @MsDesiree39

    5 ай бұрын

    that's cause you're also asian. very simple reason@@DeadlySashimi

  • @basse9914

    @basse9914

    29 күн бұрын

    They were nice because they haven't received swarms of Indians as if they're locusts like in Canada. People do not prefer Indians, and they can't be blamed for such a reasonable opinion.

  • @NoctLightCloud
    @NoctLightCloud11 ай бұрын

    looking at the current protests going on in France, I can NOT recommend that path to Japan😅

  • @nietzmietz5568

    @nietzmietz5568

    10 ай бұрын

    What do you mean? What does that have to do with immigrants in Japan?

  • @scottpilgram696

    @scottpilgram696

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@nietzmietz5568they are saying the immigrants are burning shit down in France. So don't let in a bunch of religious backwater folks into japan

  • @imwayne4159

    @imwayne4159

    10 ай бұрын

    @@nietzmietz5568I think they are saying that the immigrants are causing the problems, riots, and looting in France

  • @NoctLightCloud

    @NoctLightCloud

    10 ай бұрын

    @@nietzmietz5568 everything. you think the Japanese won't make the same mistakes when it comes to integration? Heck the Japanese seem to be even more into seggregation and not giving their immigrants equal opportunities.

  • @nperegri

    @nperegri

    10 ай бұрын

    Cope

  • @SolamenteTavo
    @SolamenteTavo10 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I want to go to work and have kids in a country with a culture that expects me to spend like 14h at work or being seen as a lazy inmigrant

  • @gordonbgraham

    @gordonbgraham

    10 ай бұрын

    Most Japanese work 40 hours a week. Japan ranks 27th in the world for hours worked per annum.

  • @szczepan4737

    @szczepan4737

    10 ай бұрын

    @@gordonbgraham That's official data. In reality workers are expected to stay longer at work. "If you leave before your boss, then you are not a hard worker".

  • @gordonbgraham

    @gordonbgraham

    10 ай бұрын

    @@szczepan4737 That data is corroborated by Japan Rail’s data which shows the evening hour between 5-6pm is the busiest in train stations throughout Japan. It’s estimated 70% of Japanese commute to work by train. Certainly, there are sectors such as finance, marketing and agriculture in which overtime is rampant, but that’s true of everywhere on the planet.

  • @cristianhcm1914

    @cristianhcm1914

    10 ай бұрын

    What is an inmigrant? ....?

  • @sheezy2526

    @sheezy2526

    10 ай бұрын

    @@gordonbgraham Yeap, they also have very high amount of leaves per year. Working condition in Japan is no different than any other Asian country.

  • @JeromeProductions
    @JeromeProductions10 ай бұрын

    I’d love to visit Japan some day as it’s always been on my bucket list. However living there is definitely out of the books.

  • @user-pd9ju5dk5s

    @user-pd9ju5dk5s

    10 ай бұрын

    Dont worry. They dont like foreignors so it's a win win

  • @JeromeProductions

    @JeromeProductions

    10 ай бұрын

    @@user-pd9ju5dk5s fantastic 💀

  • @ShubhanshAgrawal

    @ShubhanshAgrawal

    10 ай бұрын

    Please I request you deeply to not think of moving here. I have only worked in Japan and now my skillset are low and energy even lower to move outside of Japan. Don’t ruin your life too, visiting at max is enough

  • @sayajinmamuang

    @sayajinmamuang

    10 ай бұрын

    I better hurry up and go visit soon before the foreigners impose their shitty politics and ways of life on the country. 😂

  • @MayaMaya-tj7kw

    @MayaMaya-tj7kw

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@user-pd9ju5dk5sthey don't like you in particular

  • @koczan8464
    @koczan846410 ай бұрын

    I think that comparing situation in Europe and how it changed to Japan is not a good idea.

  • @haruyanto8085

    @haruyanto8085

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly, Japan is taking in other asians lol

  • @BoredInTheComments

    @BoredInTheComments

    10 ай бұрын

    That's the exact comment I just made lmao. Literally watch a video of Muslims bragging about burning France down.

  • @vothbetilia4862

    @vothbetilia4862

    10 ай бұрын

    Duh Japan is xenophobic

  • @SeethingSimp

    @SeethingSimp

    9 ай бұрын

    @@vothbetilia4862 I wonder why it's so safe. I wish Japan had its' own Chicago, that would be amazing.

  • @vothbetilia4862

    @vothbetilia4862

    9 ай бұрын

    @@SeethingSimp lol it's not so safe.

  • @abellyold4859
    @abellyold485910 ай бұрын

    The expectation to conform and behave strictly according to norms is deeply ingrained in Japanese culture of which an individual must have immense courage to be an unconventional maverick or act out of the norm.

  • @xMoomin

    @xMoomin

    10 ай бұрын

    umm come to shibuya bro/girl

  • @NationX

    @NationX

    10 ай бұрын

    This logic is very loosely applied to foreigners. Perhaps more so in business environments. Or perhaps if you were to intermarry. There’s this expectation that foreigners don’t understand Japanese culture so any attempts to respect anything is a pleasant surprise. Hell I’ve seen Japanese people both young and old break certain rules that I adhere to on the daily. I’d say if you have a decent level of Japanese and can manage to land a decent home and job (those two can be the toughest parts, depending where you live and your qualifications) you can live here comfortably. Source: Currently a language student living in Tokyo. Can’t really speak for other prefectures.

  • @martiddy

    @martiddy

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@NationXThe thing is that what most foreigners call Japanese values to people behaving just like a civilized person. Things like keeping places clean and being polite to people should be normal around the world. Obviously, there are a few things that could be a little different, like the tatamae values, where you're expected to not express your real emotions to avoid offending anyone (especially while working). But I think that offending people is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it's for a justified reason. For example, I could say that a person is uncivilized if he does a thing that I could perceive as unacceptable. But I understand why this could be the norm in the workplace.

  • @tonig2757

    @tonig2757

    10 ай бұрын

    @ImbAHaM Shibuya doesn't contradict what was said. While some places act as magnets for certain kind of people, underneath everything Japanese people are still mostly conformist.

  • @waltneitzel4950

    @waltneitzel4950

    10 ай бұрын

    My Japanese Niece and her husband were non conformists and moved to Australia years ago to get out of the Japanese rat race. They have a lot of Australian friends and are very happy and adjusted to the Australian life style. My Niece eventually graduated from a nursing collage in Australia, and really struggled to become a licenced nurse. Not easy for a non English speaking foreigner in Australia. She does video conferencing with her mom and the rest of her extended Japanese family often to keep in touch. They occasionally also go back to visit, but I doubt if they will ever go back to live until after they retire. She will call me occasionally just to say hello. She speaks excellent English now with an Australian accent.

  • @younessalibane7504
    @younessalibane750410 ай бұрын

    If you asked me, I feel like Japan will solve a problem with another problem, but I am interested to see where this shift is leading Japan to.

  • @PhillKaggitz

    @PhillKaggitz

    10 ай бұрын

    I can't wait to see how Japan's handle Cultural Enrichment

  • @thenightcorereaper

    @thenightcorereaper

    10 ай бұрын

    @@PhillKaggitz if they want to avoid it they should only take in parents with babies to avoid bringing in younger to middle aged folks who are already foreign-adapted type of people who may cause culutral clashes with the locals. That way the kids grow up in japan and end up like the rest of the population, while screening their incoming labour force for behaviours that may cause confilict.

  • @dragunitytamer28

    @dragunitytamer28

    10 ай бұрын

    I think the problems that could arise from this is mostly on cultural part, more & more foreigners will occupy Japan and some won't adapt to Japanese norms and try to normalize their norms which could diminish Japan's unique culture, example of this case is my country Philippines, in the 2000s our culture is slowly getting replaced by those of the west, now almost all kids & teens don't know our old culture & norms.

  • @michaelphillips2079

    @michaelphillips2079

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@PhillKaggitzmy thoughts exactly.

  • @haruyanto8085

    @haruyanto8085

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@PhillKaggitzthey taking other asians with similar cultures so no worries. They arent desperate for more tax payers unlike europe

  • @user-yv7ih3ns3b
    @user-yv7ih3ns3b8 ай бұрын

    I am sad to hear that. I'm Italian, immigration has made Italy worse. Degradation, insecurity, ethnic conflicts, struggles between mafias and gangs. and the Italians continually accused of racism unjustly... Mass immigration is a colonial system… on the contrary, where the natives are continually humiliated.

  • @longseason2516

    @longseason2516

    8 ай бұрын

    this is absolutely not true and its basically you admitting that you’re racist

  • @user-yv7ih3ns3b

    @user-yv7ih3ns3b

    8 ай бұрын

    @@longseason2516 "You are racist", this is the typical phrase of women with a racial fetish for blacks, or racial fetish in general. Who, unable to admit their fetish, hide it behind social justice.

  • @Frostchris4121

    @Frostchris4121

    8 ай бұрын

    @@user-yv7ih3ns3b You sure proved her wrong lol.

  • @wilkesmcdermid7906

    @wilkesmcdermid7906

    7 ай бұрын

    @@longseason2516 Why just resort to calling people racist for sharing their opinions. Typical leftist response.

  • @gumerzambrano

    @gumerzambrano

    7 ай бұрын

    How come I've never heard of this

  • @drifle91
    @drifle9110 ай бұрын

    As much as Japan opens to the world, the japanese society still has a closed mindset of receiving foreigners in their community. This has nothing to do with racism or any discrimination, it's just the culture is so kept intact that foreigners will almost have a very difficult time to integrate into one.

  • @i_am_ergo

    @i_am_ergo

    9 ай бұрын

    The word you're looking for is 'xenophobic.' And yeah, they certainly are.

  • @maegalroammis6020

    @maegalroammis6020

    9 ай бұрын

    xenophobia is like racism.

  • @Kronos0999

    @Kronos0999

    9 ай бұрын

    Good

  • @ultrasurfs

    @ultrasurfs

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@i_am_ergothere is no such thing, you just want them to change to suit you.

  • @Lenteus

    @Lenteus

    9 ай бұрын

    I don’t see anything wrong with that, every culture should strive to be conservative and keep its identity.

  • @Hawtload
    @Hawtload10 ай бұрын

    I lived there before and personally I wouldn't recommend it unless you already have a remote-job that pays really well, and you come with your spouse. Being single and stuck in Japanese work life is absolutely not what you want to do with your life. Making real friends who aren't foreigners is especially difficult as well.

  • @cristianhcm1914

    @cristianhcm1914

    10 ай бұрын

    Being a single guy with money and being stuck in Japan sounds perfect to me. I'll be in Tokyo next year!

  • @d0tc0mmie

    @d0tc0mmie

    10 ай бұрын

    I think it’s very dependent on how you are, I’m fairly outgoing in nature so it’s very easy to make Japanese friends in bars/Izakayas or anywhere in the country I think Japan is one of the easiest countries in the world to make friends.

  • @cristianhcm1914

    @cristianhcm1914

    10 ай бұрын

    @@d0tc0mmie ..Well said. A confident, outgoing person does well anywhere.

  • @earlysda

    @earlysda

    9 ай бұрын

    @@cristianhcm1914 Depends on what your definition of "friend" is.

  • @maegalroammis6020

    @maegalroammis6020

    9 ай бұрын

    the land of common discrimination.

  • @bertibear1300
    @bertibear13002 ай бұрын

    Be very careful who you let in.

  • @antihero9443
    @antihero94438 ай бұрын

    As a Japanese I will say that our country (=politics and corporations) want foreigners who will work hard, never talk back and get paid below minimum wage.

  • @mr.notsonice

    @mr.notsonice

    7 ай бұрын

    So... Southeast asians... Got it

  • @nikolaizaicev9297

    @nikolaizaicev9297

    4 ай бұрын

    Well, that's probably the number 1 reason why Japan has no future in a case like this. 1. A decaying economy kept alive by printing unbacked credit money. 2. An aging population 3. Declining size of the working population. 4. Monopolization of markets and increasing corruption. 5. Discriminatory policies and imbalance in the distribution of resources 6. Failure to attract immigrants. Hmmm... what could possibly go wrong in the future? Well, kudos and good luck to you.

  • @antihero9443

    @antihero9443

    4 ай бұрын

    @@nikolaizaicev9297 1. We should have printed more to break out of the deflation. 2. 2 and 3 are related to 1. 4. Monopolization saves our industries (look at the west, they have been saying that while monopolizing the markets) 5. I don't know what was "discriminatory" 6. Failure to attract immigrants (=low wage wokers) was the way to go. Japan still sucks but still in a better state than the US, EU and the UK. If you are from the west, good luck cleaning up the mess you all have made. No offence but I don't see any future in western nations. Globalism FAILED.

  • @nikolaizaicev9297

    @nikolaizaicev9297

    4 ай бұрын

    @@antihero9443 In what way is Japan in a better state than US, EU or UK? They all including Japan are based on capitalist system, and thereby have mostly the same problems caused by the flaws inbuilt in the capitalist system. The only difference between Japan and them is, that Japan digs even a deeper hole for itself, by ignoring these systemic flaws while US, EU and UK does not and tries to do something against them. While EU, USA and UK will have short-term problems like rising crime rates caused by immigration etc, you will have to deal with the long-term problems (lack of population, lack of jobs, etc). This is the difference that you seem to not understand. I recommend you to read a little bit about System Dynamics and thinking ( Fifth Discipline, The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations, Thinking Fast and Slow, etc) Any capitalist system will die soon or letter, but you can extend its lifespan with immigration. If you don't do that and if you don't replace it with another economy system, your country will just shrink, first economically and then by other means.

  • @antihero9443

    @antihero9443

    4 ай бұрын

    @@nikolaizaicev9297 Short term problems...hmmm, I can't agree with that. Do you think the EU and US/UK immigration problem will be short term? They have been struggling with that for over a decade and now they are trying to get rid of the immigrants which I think is impossible. You are mixing corporation policies with national policies. I understand what you are saying but if a system needs a change, you can't just rapidly restructure everything like a corporation can. Plus you seem to not understand that our problem during these 30 years was not due to the lack of the working force but was due to the fact that we were in a deflation state. Which means our supply side was good but there was no demand. EU, US, UK were all in a mild inflation (2%-3%) state.

  • @Nope_handlesaretrash
    @Nope_handlesaretrash10 ай бұрын

    Congratulations Japan you're officially screwed

  • @Inc.Co.
    @Inc.Co.11 ай бұрын

    I sure hope they do a better job than Europe.

  • @scottpilgram696

    @scottpilgram696

    10 ай бұрын

    Europe has went to fucking shit

  • @edilee5909

    @edilee5909

    10 ай бұрын

    That's a given imo. There aren't millions of refugees washing up on their shores every year.

  • @tonyt.5771

    @tonyt.5771

    10 ай бұрын

    Ya, and a shit load of them coming from shit holes.

  • @sheezy2526

    @sheezy2526

    10 ай бұрын

    @@edilee5909 That were products of USA lead invasions that Europe also were a part of. After destroying multiple countries in the Middle East not sure why everyone is suddenly pulling a surprised Pikachu face.

  • @darkcasterx4628

    @darkcasterx4628

    10 ай бұрын

    Europe has a refugee crisis not an immigration crisis

  • @lepearcreatif
    @lepearcreatif10 ай бұрын

    Japan-"No migrants, except from low income undeveloped countries so we can explore them for 5 years and send them back home." And thus was the Special Skill Visa created.

  • @KC-io2rg
    @KC-io2rg10 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @jish55
    @jish555 ай бұрын

    A little correction, Japan had a lot of war, but it was against different regions of Japan, with one of the greatest periods in Japanese history being the waring states era (which was a 500 year long period of essentially non stop civil war that was raging throughout the entire country). Before that, there was the two wars against Mongolia.

  • @fernandoflores6605
    @fernandoflores660510 ай бұрын

    The issue is that these policy changes are 30 years late. Immigrants are better off moving to America, Canada, Australia, Germany, etc. They will get better paid, cultural assimilation is easier, and a better work-life balance. Japan should have deployed these changes in the 90s when Japanese salaries were some of the highest in the world. Japanese salaries nowadays are 1/3 of that.

  • @lostintranslation2985

    @lostintranslation2985

    10 ай бұрын

    No people are unlucky in America

  • @haruyanto8085

    @haruyanto8085

    10 ай бұрын

    I don't think skilled immigrants from less developed nations care about salaries, it's more of the opportunity it presents, plus majority of those immigrants are from neighbouring asian countries, just a 2-4 hour flight back home lol

  • @szczepan4737

    @szczepan4737

    10 ай бұрын

    If you are weeb you will be thankful for just being part of the japanese society 😂

  • @noripee8278

    @noripee8278

    10 ай бұрын

    We didn’t have serious labour shortage then.

  • @cristianhcm1914

    @cristianhcm1914

    10 ай бұрын

    I'm going to Japan for the beautiful women...... I could care less about the rest.

  • @lenayashina6777
    @lenayashina677710 ай бұрын

    I simply can't wrap my mind around the fact that the countries go through such economical ordeals simply because there's less people to take paper pushing jobs. Something doesn't feel right about it.

  • @hillarysudeikis2264

    @hillarysudeikis2264

    10 ай бұрын

    The real reason is the preparation of the beast system as prophesied in the Bible. Lord Jesus Christ is coming back everyone, please don’t worship celebrities and entertainment, focus on Him alone. I promise there’s more to life than money, partying, homosexuality and music. Hell is real, repent from sinning confess your sins and ask God to forgive you, I know He will if you’re sincere. Hell is very hot, people please repent! In the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen 🙏💪✝️💜❤️✝️! Idolatry such as, Islam, Catholicism, Sangomaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Racism, Santa Clausism, Confucianism, New Age, Science, Evolution, halloweenism, Harry Potterism, Politics, Donald Trumpism, Easter Bunnyism and other religions/faiths that are outside Biblical Christianity lead to hell! Don’t believe them, believe the Almighty God the Father of Lord Jesus Christ, who begot Him. Our Creator, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is mighty, He doesn’t need a woman to beget a son, He is God. I choose to put my faith in a God who can do anything and everything, a God who has unlimited and infinite power to beget! So, it’s time to confess that Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord and to believe that He died and rose from the grave after three days and you shall be saved if you only obey Him by praying, worshipping, praising, reading the Bible and living holy and righteously according to the Bible. You have to endure until the end, carry your cross daily and build your relationship with God by following Lord Jesus daily until the end. You must never renounce your faith in The Lord Jesus Christ, there’s hell awaiting those who reject/deny Lord Jesus Christ and those who continue living sinfully, even the Christians who don’t want to repent will face the same fate, so please repent beloved people, in Lord Jesus Christ’s mighty and precious Name, Amen.

  • @diodelvino3048

    @diodelvino3048

    10 ай бұрын

    those jobs pay like sh*t for the standard of lifestyle, but for foreingers from poorer countries they'll take the job.

  • @hidd3n_

    @hidd3n_

    10 ай бұрын

    capitalism baby!

  • @bluemoonlegend4328

    @bluemoonlegend4328

    10 ай бұрын

    @@chrxmouse2157 nicely worded.

  • @elchinoguerito8915

    @elchinoguerito8915

    10 ай бұрын

    @@hidd3n_ Its not even just capitalism, its just shortage of labor caused by population and what Japanese college graduate wants to work for low wages in a trade that they have no interest in or has nothing to do what they studied for? You have to remember that Asian societies put a great deal of value into reputation and status, so being a well educated person in a field of work for an uneducated person is humiliating.

  • @neversharpenough
    @neversharpenough7 ай бұрын

    i hope they keep their immigrations laws strict, i am seeing my country slowly fall apart. we import thousands of immigrants who don't add nothing to the country. don't change Japan.

  • @Haryad-11

    @Haryad-11

    7 ай бұрын

    You are taking illegal immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers not legal skilled or hard working immigrants

  • @coolioso808

    @coolioso808

    5 ай бұрын

    Are you original Japanese people working 12-18 hour days to try and keep your 'economy strong' and the country 'the same'? Newsflash: Monetary-market capitalism isn't sustainable, no matter the country, the city, the people or the region that tries to operate under that system. Maybe this hard truth isn't something you are ready for, but well, you can always ignore it and then hope it 'goes away.' OR, you can embrace it and find ways to create "A Viable Society" like Peter Joseph outlines in his talk on TZMOfficialChannel.

  • @nikolaizaicev9297

    @nikolaizaicev9297

    4 ай бұрын

    Don't add nothing to the country? Google first what a production function is and which factors contribute to it, and after read the book " Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, books of Taylor and Ford and stop spreading non-sense after that.

  • @frequentlyoffline3917
    @frequentlyoffline391710 ай бұрын

    The Wano arc really was about Japan's isolationist policies.

  • @johnl.7754
    @johnl.775411 ай бұрын

    I think it is smart of Japan (also Canada, Australia) of main focusing on getting skilled/educated immigrants since those will integrate much easily into existing society.

  • @skp8748

    @skp8748

    11 ай бұрын

    Unironically I think the US does immigration the best. People that come to the US are academically and financially better off than other diaspora as well identify much more with the country. For example a Nigerian doctor, a Yemeni refugee or an Indian student who represent 3 different types of immigration will do better than the same people migrating anywhere else. A Yemeni refugee can go from not speaking a word of English to operating/owning a business like a gas station within a decade whereas that's impossible for a Yemeni refugee to the UK where they'll quickly resign to the reality that even after a decade they'll still be on minimum wage and end up saddling their children with the burden of upward mobility via education. The Yemeni refugee in America will love being American, they'll feel protected by the law, empowered by their rights and equal to their countrymen... whereas in the UK the Yemeni will form no affinity to country, will not feel equal therefore not identify as a brit and will be in sort purgatory they endure for the sake of their children. Same with the Nigerian doctor in the US he is part of the freemarket which is reflected handsomely in his wages, he can open up a practise or pivot to healthcare adjacent profit seeking business whereas in the UK he'll be limited by the structure and regulations so therefore will save and invest his money in Nigeria where he can see business opportunities not available to him in the UK. His future as he sees it is back in Nigeria and he will raise his children with this idea. His kids will always see themselves apart from their fellow brits they'll be aware that owning a home in the UK is neigh on impossible whereas their father has already made land acquisition back home they'll also see Nigeria more than the UK as where they can implement business ideas... The US is fantastic for that. Black Americans and Latinos as well as Scots irish are all people who've lived here for hundreds of years they slowly grew with all the wonders of the US so unlike recent immigrants aren't as wowed or willing to take advantage of it. America is an idea... that's why its soo good. No other country is like it. If you buy into the American dream than you become American whereas other countries are built on and around other historical, ethnic or religious reasonings which aren't as conducive to hosting or integrating others

  • @johnl.7754

    @johnl.7754

    11 ай бұрын

    @@skp8748 I’ve heard similar thing from a successful Chinese businesswoman (a friend) whom has traveled the world but ended up sending her daughter to USA to live saying that she felt immigrants felt more welcoming then in Europe and some other countries. I still think that USA should focus on legal immigration since still not sure if those coming without much education or skill if their children would be able to climb the economic ladder and therefore have resentment build up of not getting the “American Dream”.

  • @bababababababa6124

    @bababababababa6124

    11 ай бұрын

    @@skp8748 I never thought about it like that. That was a good read 😂

  • @detroid89

    @detroid89

    11 ай бұрын

    @@skp8748 awesome read!

  • @ricpac

    @ricpac

    11 ай бұрын

    So you support a brain drain from poor countries which means they can never get ahead if educated people keep leaving

  • @mei1768
    @mei176810 ай бұрын

    There are many negative sides to opening up new historic reforms for immigration from foreign countries. 1 ideal one is the so called 'cultural shock'. I am Japanese and I have known this for very long and so foreign workers will realise how much different people work in Japan. I think foreigners are very nice but they will realise how different the culture of work is and it may demoralise the Japanese into working hard for their lives.

  • @user-if3yh4oh5c

    @user-if3yh4oh5c

    9 ай бұрын

    加油

  • @jamesfoss1627

    @jamesfoss1627

    8 ай бұрын

    Immigration in japan will just lead to people going there as part of 'conquest'. And if they dont get what they want or enough of what they want than expect riots from your new citizens.

  • @Jikrin
    @Jikrin10 ай бұрын

    Japan will only change if the people want it to. I've been living in Japan as a foreigner for a few years. People do treat me a bit sifferently, but so long as you work hard to kearn some Japanese then people will help you and you can make some good friends.

  • @earlysda

    @earlysda

    9 ай бұрын

    Even many adult Japanese have few friends.

  • @maegalroammis6020

    @maegalroammis6020

    9 ай бұрын

    THATs pathetic

  • @-www.chapters.video-
    @-www.chapters.video-10 ай бұрын

    00:00 Japan's history of isolation and anti-immigration policies 01:13 The sakoku policy and its impact on Japan's culture and society 02:54 Japan's population crisis and the need for immigration 06:17 Japan's recent shift towards immigration and its consequences

  • @flamani54
    @flamani545 ай бұрын

    I do not blame the Japanese for protecting their homeland. I wish Ancient Africans had done the same. Why do Westerners think every country must be open to everyone especially when one looks at the mess they brought upon the world? What the Japanese failed to do in my opinion was to work on their population, and birth rate policy, but yes, they are right. It is for them to decide who they want to have in their country as guests or naturalized citizens.

  • @pilotheress

    @pilotheress

    5 ай бұрын

    japan is an imperialist country, i think it’s what they deserve to have immigrants. maybe don’t destroy other countries and they’ll treat you nicely.

  • @Scopatone
    @Scopatone10 ай бұрын

    It's interesting that people always talk about Japan in regards to birth rate and trouble when South Korea has almost half of Japan's rate.

  • @user-jc62a7v28

    @user-jc62a7v28

    10 ай бұрын

    South Korea is trying hard to solve this problem(immigration, human rights and workspace improvement etc.) but Japan does nothing.

  • @afaha2214
    @afaha221410 ай бұрын

    KZreadr paid for views: Japan is opening its immigration Weebs: clicks video gets excited actual japanese: lol nope

  • @thelastdefenderofcamelot5623

    @thelastdefenderofcamelot5623

    10 ай бұрын

    victimized countries around the world especially in Europe are taking drastic measures to "preserve" their culture by setting up laws against rude foreigners and banning English when writing documents. yikes!

  • @Its_just_me_again
    @Its_just_me_again10 ай бұрын

    best stock footage iv seen since.... the last video iv watched

  • @xorbe2
    @xorbe210 ай бұрын

    "Let's fix one problem with an even worse problem!"

  • @kitnascimento013

    @kitnascimento013

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly France and England and then Germany tried that rout with devastating results. The latest riots in France costed billions of euros in property damage and untold social strife. The US who praised itself as a "nation of immigrants" is more and more divided as the immigration increases uncontrolled. The Floyd riots was a tipping point of that social strife

  • @technoir-1984
    @technoir-19849 ай бұрын

    For centuries Japan has been "closed" to immigration. It's obvious that its society is used to live in this way for so many time. Changing the way of life in a fast manner could be disastrous. A society with different types of people may work in American countries such as USA, Brazil, Colombia, Canada etc because they were forged with people with a diverse origins since their beginning. And this is the opposite of Asian countries. Take an example of Europe, with a lot of countries with problems involved immigration. In this type of society where it was forged for a long time ago, the original people may not get used to live with different people. May not get comfortable with immigrants and might there be a society divided by a lack of integration. Japan is not USA. Japan needs to be aware to not become an "Asian France".

  • @Cha4k

    @Cha4k

    7 ай бұрын

    100%, The western world is slowly collapsing in part due to the mistake of mass immigration. We should not drag Japan down with us.

  • @gumerzambrano

    @gumerzambrano

    7 ай бұрын

    Whats an Asian France

  • @technoir-1984

    @technoir-1984

    7 ай бұрын

    @@gumerzambrano a type of France but in Asia continent.

  • @gumerzambrano

    @gumerzambrano

    7 ай бұрын

    @@technoir-1984 so a more fancy Asia?

  • @technoir-1984

    @technoir-1984

    7 ай бұрын

    @@gumerzambrano if you think that ghettos, no go zones, beggars and t3rrori$m is fancy...

  • @joshvanderbij4891
    @joshvanderbij48919 ай бұрын

    To all foreigners who really want to move to Japan: research every aspect of life in Japan. It's not all sunshine and roses. That said; it will certainly offer you an experience like no other

  • @BleakDeath

    @BleakDeath

    7 ай бұрын

    I just screenshot this 😂 I’m def going to

  • @cdn4767

    @cdn4767

    Ай бұрын

    @@BleakDeathyeah, nah. For most countries they have a bad side, you can build a personal utopia here but the tolls it takes will screwed you up bad.

  • @cdn4767

    @cdn4767

    Ай бұрын

    I know, it’s basically “no pain no gain”.

  • @seanlennart4740
    @seanlennart47409 ай бұрын

    nice vid, don’t wanna be that guy but the chapter description “the hermit kingdom” is a bit off because it was the description for Korea coming from a book with that same title

  • @Ming1975
    @Ming197510 ай бұрын

    This is the problem with going 1st world, starting a family is not always affordable.

  • @JeiBurke

    @JeiBurke

    Ай бұрын

    Yes it is. Its not expensive to have kids. People are having kids in Gaza right now, what is your excuse?

  • @ZaapielSK-9126
    @ZaapielSK-912610 ай бұрын

    I can feel this... our company ceo is a japanese and most of our company employees adapts the strictness of the japanese people... and im a filipino living here in philippines, what more if i did live and work there.... they're really super duper strick when it comes to their F***ing policies......i work 12 hrs ... 6 days a week.....i can't even live a healthy lifestyle due to overworking... lack of eat and sleep....well I can endure those things but inside the company??.... you are not allowed to talk even inside of the canteen or any facilities inside the vicinity unless its a work related but nah, the guard will scold you if they caught you talking to others.... no talking policies even at work(well, i get this because you need to focus on work)..... and when the higher ups saw you even a slightest mistake, you will have a somewhat we call 5 why's(you need to ask yourself 5x why's did that certain situation in a form of black and white) and its f***ing annoying... even though you were just working normally. Our working place were really hot because of the machines emits heat, they can't even have a good ventilation system, the leader will say "heat is not a reason for you to stop from working or to even fan yourself"...sorry to vent this out, i won't say the company but its a japanese company here on the philippines and im always thinking "Am i a prisoner".. that's how japanese strictness really are, they seriously need to change the way they implement theyre frickin policies.... that's why some of japanese people commits suicide, putting themselves isolated from others or theyll just die from being lonely.... they need to change those but not all, I really like their culture though.......

  • @boyjcmirabel2148

    @boyjcmirabel2148

    10 ай бұрын

    Wow, this makes me think twice or better many times before going to Japan for a job. Thanks for the information.

  • @user-og9nl5mt1b

    @user-og9nl5mt1b

    10 ай бұрын

    Man that sounds hell . Something is wrong with these people

  • @coolcobrax

    @coolcobrax

    10 ай бұрын

    That's insane!! At least they let us talk here and 12 hour days😢😢 I'm learning so much in this thread

  • @maegalroammis6020

    @maegalroammis6020

    9 ай бұрын

    JUST LEAVE

  • @user-og9nl5mt1b

    @user-og9nl5mt1b

    9 ай бұрын

    U should post this in r/anti work

  • @geertvlaenckx9942
    @geertvlaenckx994210 ай бұрын

    Most of those immigrants are from other Asian countries, hence culturally similar. Don't expect riots about criminals being shot any time soon

  • @EllieMaes-Grandad
    @EllieMaes-Grandad10 ай бұрын

    The Japanese should study France . . .

  • @herohero-fw1vc
    @herohero-fw1vc11 ай бұрын

    Japan has no immigration policy even today. It only has extendable work visa.......I don't want foreignors.

  • @nippolitica

    @nippolitica

    10 ай бұрын

    False. Japan has both Permanent Residency and Naturalised Citizenship, the latter of which is in some ways easier to obtain than the former.

  • @sinistercr0347
    @sinistercr034710 ай бұрын

    past: live for feudal lords now: live for economic growth

  • @horos5870

    @horos5870

    10 ай бұрын

    It's the same exact mechanism

  • @Jay-hu3ol
    @Jay-hu3ol10 ай бұрын

    I don't think people realize how much this changes things. For people who live in dirt poor poverty while worrying if their house will be bombed everyday, Japan's work culture is heaven. It sucks but it's true

  • @escarretada

    @escarretada

    10 ай бұрын

    But that people won't afford go to japan anyway...

  • @66meikou
    @66meikou8 ай бұрын

    I'm a Japanophile Architect who works remotely from my office. I've studied traditional Japanese architecture and joinery as I'm an avid woodworker. I'm 57, my mum is coming onto 81, I don't know how much longer she'll be around. My son is 22 and he's doing his own stuff as a welder. I moved to the US in 2000, if mum goes and boyo's doing his own thing, I have no real reason to stay here. I could move back to the UK which would be fine but the idea of moving into some small village with abandoned houses is appealing. As long as I could get a satellite internet signal, I could still work for my office in the US. I'm owed pensions from both the Uk and the US so I'd not be a drain on Japan's resources apart from healthcare. Refurbish an old farmhouse and go fix things for the locals seems like a great way to retire to me.

  • @PlatanosConAqua
    @PlatanosConAqua10 ай бұрын

    I’ve always found the East’s (specifically Japan’s) obsession with work absolutely mind-numbing. To live in a society where your social status is defined by how many hours you put in at your job is nuts. Hopefully, one day, the Japanese can find a way to ease work hours so that people can go out and experience more. The government can not expect to raise Japan’s population when the norm is spending more than half of your existence inside a fucking cubicle all day.

  • @gordonbgraham

    @gordonbgraham

    10 ай бұрын

    Japan ranks 27th in the world for hours worked per annum. Most Japanese work standard 40 hour work weeks. Don't take your cues from myopic KZread documentaries that point their cameras at sectors like finance, marketing or agriculture in which overtime is rampant throughout the world and claim "THIS is Japan's work culture". It is for a small percentage of Japanese, but not most. The thing is, father coming home at 6pm and going to his son's baseball game on Saturday and his daughter's piano recital on Sunday, doesn't make for very compelling viewing material.

  • @sydakk

    @sydakk

    10 ай бұрын

    I’m not Japanese, but I personally think that’s not your place to judge. Maybe their work culture is different, but that doesn’t mean yours is right.

  • @JESUSISLORDforever888

    @JESUSISLORDforever888

    10 ай бұрын

    Not ALL Japanese work in a cubicle. My dad used to say, “I work to live, but I do not live to work”. That should maybe be the mindset. You work to make an honest wage and decent living, but you do not LIVE to get up everyday and spend your whole day at work....especially for those who have families.

  • @StopAntiWhiteism

    @StopAntiWhiteism

    10 ай бұрын

    Socialism craters birth rates. Typical parasite trying to convince others that productivity is bad.

  • @IR-xy3ij

    @IR-xy3ij

    10 ай бұрын

    Tbh this is uniquely a Japanese thing. Their view of the Chinese isn't dissimilar to how Italians were viewed in the US: loud, lazy and self-centred.

  • @gregorybreen7705
    @gregorybreen770510 ай бұрын

    Hi, I’m a long term resident of Japan. My Japanese wife and I are about to (any day now) have our first child that we are 90% sure we want to raise in Japan. Especially since I’ll be eligible for permanent residency this winter. But that 10% unsure is because every job I’ve had expects and average of 2-3 hours a day of un paid overtime. I don’t lose sleep over that because all my friends are paid for overtime so I just need a better job. What we do lose sleep over I that’s my Japanese is somewhere between conversational and fluent while the Average Japanese person is barely beyond a few English phrases. Even so, when I speak Japanese, a very large portion of Japanese people will force their terrible English on me as if to remind me that they believe (even if subconsciously) I don’t belong here. When I say I work in a dealership people laugh because I must be joking because outsiders don’t do that. At work in my work uniform, a small percentage of people ask my boss “what is that doing here”. Not in a mean way, but that they truly can’t comprehend that a white/none Asian face can do this job. I make sure never to ask Japanese people (other than my wife and her mom) questions about the Japanese language because I know they will answer me in English and often the wrong answer because their English is so bad… because I must teach then English… because I am an English teacher… in my mechanics uniform visibly doing mechanic stuff… you know, like an English teacher…. I have a casual friend from France who doesn’t speak much English, we speak japanese together. You can imagine how angry he gets when people won’t speak japanese to him even after he explains (in Japanese) that he is French and doesn’t speak english. We both agree that the most frustrating thing is both of us having not 1 reliable japanese friend because most don’t return out messages or calls after realizing we won’t be there English teacher friend. It’s not like every US American speaks 7 languages because every immigrant we know teaches us their language rather than us helping their English. But what we absolutely hate is the huge Number (I dare say majority) of foreigners that try to tell us these things never happen to them no matter how many times we watch it happen to them. (I’m sure some will comment on this comment 😅) But I make this long pessimistic comment only to encourage foreigners to stand up for themselves and say, “this is Japan, I came to Japan for a life in Japan and to speak japanese, we don’t speak to asians in bad mandarin in my country, so please Japanese people, don’t force English based only on our skin color, treat us like people too”. And also to say, be it very slow, things have gotten better in my 5 years here. Before Japan, I never wanted kids, and now we have a “what about 2” conversation before the first even gets here😊.

  • @hillarysudeikis2264

    @hillarysudeikis2264

    10 ай бұрын

    The real reason is the preparation of the beast system as prophesied in the Bible. Lord Jesus Christ is coming back everyone, please don’t worship celebrities and entertainment, focus on Him alone. I promise there’s more to life than money, partying, homosexuality and music. Hell is real, repent from sinning confess your sins and ask God to forgive you, I know He will if you’re sincere. Hell is very hot, people please repent! In the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen 🙏💪✝️💜❤️✝️! Idolatry such as, Islam, Catholicism, Sangomaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Racism, Santa Clausism, Confucianism, New Age, Science, Evolution, halloweenism, Harry Potterism, Politics, Donald Trumpism, Easter Bunnyism and other religions/faiths that are outside Biblical Christianity lead to hell! Don’t believe them, believe the Almighty God the Father of Lord Jesus Christ, who begot Him. Our Creator, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is mighty, He doesn’t need a woman to beget a son, He is God. I choose to put my faith in a God who can do anything and everything, a God who has unlimited and infinite power to beget! So, it’s time to confess that Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord and to believe that He died and rose from the grave after three days and you shall be saved if you only obey Him by praying, worshipping, praising, reading the Bible and living holy and righteously according to the Bible. You have to endure until the end, carry your cross daily and build your relationship with God by following Lord Jesus daily until the end. You must never renounce your faith in The Lord Jesus Christ, there’s hell awaiting those who reject/deny Lord Jesus Christ and those who continue living sinfully, even the Christians who don’t want to repent will face the same fate, so please repent beloved people, in Lord Jesus Christ’s mighty and precious Name, Amen.

  • @salahuddinmuhammad3251

    @salahuddinmuhammad3251

    10 ай бұрын

    yes, forced overtime should be a crime. Time for family, hobbies, and rest if needed.

  • @nippolitica

    @nippolitica

    10 ай бұрын

    @@salahuddinmuhammad3251 In some cases it is, actually. Unpaid labor is wage theft, a crime under Japanese labor law. I am a labor union organiser here. Greg should join his union.

  • @tempo700

    @tempo700

    10 ай бұрын

    The unfortunate truth is that no matter how hard you try to assimilate into the Japanese culture, the Japanese will ALWAYS view you as a foreigner.

  • @Moepowerplant

    @Moepowerplant

    10 ай бұрын

    @@tempo700 The Japanese did view him as a foreigner.... except his family. So, once in Japan, have an in-group to shelter with and distance yourself from the rest, though, granted, finding one in the first place may be tough.

  • @arthurrogers2289
    @arthurrogers228910 ай бұрын

    Very good

  • @zibbitybibbitybop
    @zibbitybibbitybop10 ай бұрын

    I speak fluent Japanese and have always wanted to try living there for a while, but I have zero desire to work myself half to death because of the insane work culture. It's really too bad that the country can't seem to move past that mentality.

  • @haruyanto8085

    @haruyanto8085

    10 ай бұрын

    Then avoid the office works, open a cafe or something

  • @Sagittarius-A-Star

    @Sagittarius-A-Star

    10 ай бұрын

    I envy you for speaking Japanese! As haruyanto says you don't need to be a salary man ( woman? ) - try your own business; I saw a lot of videos about restaurants ( OK, a lot of work too ), food stalls, cafes ( e.g in unstaffed railway stations ), ....

  • @watermage25

    @watermage25

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@haruyanto8085restaraunts and cafes almost all fail in the first year. Its not easy to just open a successful business

  • @NrettG

    @NrettG

    10 ай бұрын

    @@watermage25 Is that the reason why pop up cafes are so popular?

  • @maegalroammis6020

    @maegalroammis6020

    9 ай бұрын

    it's really stupid. when a country is lead by insane old men stuck in past, that's how this happen

  • @waltneitzel4950
    @waltneitzel495010 ай бұрын

    I would like it if Japan would also encourage retirees to spend more time in Japan. They would also add foreign exchange to the economy. The Philippines does that already with it's retirement visa system. I was one of those foreigners who was stationed with the USAF years ago in Japan and I liked it so well that I married a Japanese lady and stayed four years. Up till recent years it was pretty expensive to live in Japan, but now not so much. As long as you don't live in the major cities. Ideal for people who are retired and can enjoy the Japanese countryside which is a more traditional Japan experience. I heard that the countryside in more rural areas are hurting even worse because of the many younger people moving to the big cities where the job opportunities are.

  • @BM_100

    @BM_100

    10 ай бұрын

    No because Japan already has too many old people

  • @waltneitzel4950

    @waltneitzel4950

    10 ай бұрын

    @@BM_100 This is just an excuse to remain a homogeneous society without many foreigners. Yes I understand that, but the Japanese old people have to be supported by the government, or family, or whoever. This is a problem. Japan is still stuck in the past with it's policies trying to remain closed to foreigners. It's necessary in the modern Japan to have some foreigners but the attitude is to only have as few as necessary. I spent four years and really understand this homogeneous mind set. Older retirees from other countries bring their own money in and don't need government help. And they don't have to live in the big cities.

  • @quangminhpham7919

    @quangminhpham7919

    10 ай бұрын

    @@waltneitzel4950 who you think you are to force them do what you want, stay your country asia dont need people like you in our country, with the way you think, dont go anywhere

  • @quangminhpham7919

    @quangminhpham7919

    10 ай бұрын

    @@waltneitzel4950 see US,EU with imigration, with riot, crime no country want to be like that so stop migrate to any country

  • @DavidCarloAFermo

    @DavidCarloAFermo

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@BM_100old people from other countries won't take welfare but will bring in capital to spend within the country.

  • @dorsia4167
    @dorsia416710 ай бұрын

    Quite the opposite. I feel it’s harder to renew the working visa and Japan just passed a law that allows immigrants to be deported if the cause trouble. But that’s good. Open the doors to immigration, if not with highly selective methods, can be dangerous and causing chaos like in France and most of Europe.

  • @12zjesma
    @12zjesma10 ай бұрын

    As long as Japan remains mainly focused on work culture like nomikai, family will never be first.

  • @gordonbgraham

    @gordonbgraham

    10 ай бұрын

    Nomikai pretty much died out in the 2000s

  • @Asemco
    @Asemco10 ай бұрын

    Educational, Informative, Music kinda loud.

  • @cortezforever
    @cortezforever11 ай бұрын

    While the current solution may not be ideal and may not offer long-term effectiveness, it's crucial to address the potential risks associated with an influx of people. Japan, a country known for its innovative solutions, should consider embracing a collaborative approach where the wisdom of the older generation harmoniously integrates with the fresh perspective of the young. By reevaluating the traditional notion of "出る釘は打たれる" (the nail that sticks out gets hammered down) and fostering an environment that encourages open dialogue and adaptation, Japan can unlock new possibilities and find effective solutions. Japan has demonstrated its resilience and problem-solving abilities in the past, and there's no doubt that this can be achieved once again.

  • @rolandaustria7926

    @rolandaustria7926

    11 ай бұрын

    It needs to do so with extreme foresight and balance. It is undeniable that the reason with the currently community-centric "Collectivism" has been able to produce such a peaceful orderly society (case in point: Tokyo with its 40 million population) is because people in Japan coexist seamlessly with these complex unspoken rules that maintains it. Cultural concepts aligns with their values of social awareness, empathy, and the overall goal of maintaining harmonious interactions with others. These are concepts that are harder for people from "Individualistic" cultures to accept and live by (case in point: my foreigner coworkers are deliberately disruptive as a protest against Japanese cultures that clash with their own).

  • @cortezforever

    @cortezforever

    10 ай бұрын

    @@rolandaustria7926 In regards to "Individualistic" cultures, I agree with your perspective. I believe Japan has a bright future in utilizing robotics and quantum computing, such as the impressive Tesla Bot/Dojo, to aid the elderly and automate certain job functions. While the government subsidizes a younger demographic to balance population and innovation, there is no way for outsiders to resolve this issue. My understanding of the Japanese way has led me to conclude that it deserves an upgrade while still upholding its essential values. How do you think the issues discussed could be resolved?

  • @Nowhere-from

    @Nowhere-from

    10 ай бұрын

    It all sounds great in theory. Nothing-at-all-whatsoever-in-the-least to expect in practice.

  • @cortezforever

    @cortezforever

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Nowhere-from If it's a theory, it's just that. What solutions do you have other than gloom?

  • @ron5978

    @ron5978

    10 ай бұрын

    What you wrote is just lots of words not any real solution

  • @matthewburrow3089
    @matthewburrow308910 ай бұрын

    Japan is not really worth it for a skilled immigrant unless you fill some good paying blue-collar field or specific niche where you have a work-life balance. The other problem is that some of the other fields that need workers also do not pay very well and accustomed to chicanery like keeping the workers at the entry-level or as interns through legal loopholes. Maybe that is changing now, but it does not leave much confidence.

  • @TheOtherBill
    @TheOtherBill10 ай бұрын

    Looking at what is happening in France now and has been happening in Sweden for years, you have to ask if Japan shouldn't go looking for immigrants unless it can get them from countries with societies that have morals close to their own.

  • @michaelphillips2079

    @michaelphillips2079

    10 ай бұрын

    That would make too much sense according to France, Sweden, and the US. They'd rather burn in chaos to virtue signal.

  • @darkcasterx4628

    @darkcasterx4628

    10 ай бұрын

    That doesn’t really matter, most immigrants can safely assimilate. Also, Europe has a refugee crisis, so their issue is slightly different

  • @anchorthesun3438

    @anchorthesun3438

    10 ай бұрын

    @@darkcasterx4628 immigrants do not assimilate , at most they absorb the worst aspects of their respective cultures

  • @djnomad1102

    @djnomad1102

    10 ай бұрын

    That doesn’t matter. These countries are getting insurmountable benefits from immigration, that’s why practically every country is pro immigration. The world runs on economic prowess. These “issues” are a trade they’d make 10/10 every time.

  • @bogdan1213

    @bogdan1213

    10 ай бұрын

    @@djnomad1102 the countries with the most welfare/government benefits gets the most immigrants. that's a fact. Japan has to step up welfare programs.

  • @AndreAndre-yd5gw
    @AndreAndre-yd5gw10 ай бұрын

    Don't know where you get your info from. Foreign workers on a work visa are not immigrants, unless they marry in, which is rare. I know a white European guy who married a Japanese girl and he had a difficult time getting accepted by her family. After 11 years living there he still says it is not an ideal country to settle in. Getting accepted takes a very long time there and even then you will never be fully accepted, you will always be the foreigner. Now imagine any non white person with even greater cultural differences, dark skin color and less able to adapt to the very different cultural norms of Japan.

  • @a.thales7641
    @a.thales764110 ай бұрын

    Stop! Don't do this! Don't destroy your heaven!

  • @Japanimal1992
    @Japanimal199210 ай бұрын

    The problem isn't moving to Japan, immigration is quite easy, the problem is STAYING in Japan. The cost of living is very high, salaries are very low and haven't changed in 30 years. Even if you speak very fluent Japanese, it is very difficult to get a job outside of English teaching or IT. Simple expected things, like owning a car, is SO expensive. Also Japan is very out-of-date in all technology (aside from public transport). Oh, and you have to put up with every single person you see staring at you like you're a terrifying monster.

  • @cristianhcm1914

    @cristianhcm1914

    10 ай бұрын

    As long as the lovely women stare at me ... I'll be happy to be in Japan !

  • @excalibro8365

    @excalibro8365

    10 ай бұрын

    @@cristianhcm1914 Lol exactly

  • @user-yz3eh8ln6d
    @user-yz3eh8ln6d7 ай бұрын

    私は日本人です。日本人は何も変わってないですよ。戦前から全く変わってないです。アメリカ人が勝手に自分達が変えたって思ってるだけです。なので誤解が生じるのです。日本は第二次世界大戦前から民主国家で資本主義国家でした。それに働く時間が長いのはサービスが多いからです。その労働はGDPには含まれてません。日本人は働く事は良いことと思っています。尊敬される風潮があります。

  • @westvillage321

    @westvillage321

    7 ай бұрын

    労働を無料のサービスとして考える風潮が、少子化の遠因になっている

  • @bountyhunter1890
    @bountyhunter1890Ай бұрын

    It's good to see that Japan will be getting its share of astronauts and doctors.

  • @Baby1245
    @Baby124511 ай бұрын

    If they plan to grant Citizenship instead of legal residency only, they should let that person wait until he or she is 50... That way, thier "Japanization" is total and complete. There should never be a counter culture attitude. Japan is for the Japanese, they should allow immigrats who will help preserve Japanese culture ...not erase or change it...

  • @totobibi507

    @totobibi507

    10 ай бұрын

    It is not about what you and japaneses desire but what is necessary for Japan survival. Japanese are culturally "inbred". It has turned into a dysfunctional society progressing toward a slow death and then sudden collapse. It needs new ideas and new changes in cultural norms that is unlikely to come from within due to cultural inertia. Integrating new populations is always a challenge due to the cultural competition it introduces. You lose or win that challenge. But that is necessary risk to take. You do not developp your immunity by staying in a bubble

  • @nperegri

    @nperegri

    10 ай бұрын

    Cope

  • @Hatsuzu

    @Hatsuzu

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@totobibi507no? The Balkans has been fine for centuries the way we are.

  • @CirBam24

    @CirBam24

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@HatsuzuYup Balkans is very much fine its not like everyone wants to kill each other

  • @dannylive3000

    @dannylive3000

    10 ай бұрын

    If Japan is worried about a counter culture attitude they should worry more about U.S. influence then the influence of the likely Vietnamese and Indonesian immigrants

  • @JJ-si4qh
    @JJ-si4qh10 ай бұрын

    Japan should never change. Do they not learn anything from France, Sweden, and the UK?

  • @Steyr32

    @Steyr32

    10 ай бұрын

    Cultural differences gotta be respected 🤷‍♂️

  • @kapifromnevada4697

    @kapifromnevada4697

    10 ай бұрын

    I respect Japanese culture but Japan is not a perfect culture Japans cultural flaws will soon kill it So it needs to change so Japanese culture can continue to exist and flourish

  • @oschits-sentai2127

    @oschits-sentai2127

    10 ай бұрын

    @@kapifromnevada4697sometimes honourable death is better than disgraceful life

  • @kapifromnevada4697

    @kapifromnevada4697

    10 ай бұрын

    @@oschits-sentai2127 extinction of an entire population dose not sound honorable as survival

  • @DADRB0B55

    @DADRB0B55

    10 ай бұрын

    Neocolonialism gonna make them extinct as well, especially if westerns or middle eastern migrants are the main ones coming since they enforce their own garbage culture instead of adopting native unless it’s to be trendy on Tik Tok

  • @Low_commotion
    @Low_commotion10 ай бұрын

    That's not what "floating world" means. Or rather, it doesn't refer to the difference between Japan and the rest of the world (which the Japanese didn't have much knowledge of during this period, for obvious reasons), but rather the different sense of time in the _pleasure districts_ of feudal Japanese cities vs the rest of society & life. The human experience of time & place are different when you're in a bar or brothel, and that's what "floating world" referred to.

  • @mudanenadaara
    @mudanenadaara9 ай бұрын

    Psycho Pass anime was set in a futuristic Japan where they were closed off from the rest of the world. Didn't know this was a real thing

  • @cb8655
    @cb865510 ай бұрын

    Japan needs to look to France and the USA to understand that immigration isn’t a good idea… unless they want to be selective about where they get their immigrants from.

  • @glswenson

    @glswenson

    10 ай бұрын

    Not a good idea in what way? Japan is literally dying. Their demographics are upside down. They have one of the oldest average populations in the world, and the birth rate is not strong enough to replace the people that will be dying off. Some experts already fear it’s too late and any measures done now will just be a band aid and not actually fix the problem. Even economic incentives to have babies haven’t worked. People just don’t want to do it. Do you know what happens to a country when everyone gets old and retires and starts racking up medical bills and needing to be paid pensions and there aren’t enough young people to work and support them? The economy collapses. The country dies. Immigration is an economic cheat code. Immigrants almost always have a higher rate of reproduction than naturalized citizens. They will massively pump up the GDP and productivity.

  • @thenightcorereaper

    @thenightcorereaper

    10 ай бұрын

    if they want to avoid problems they should only take in parents with babies to avoid bringing in younger to middle aged folks who are already foreign-adapted type of people who may cause culutral clashes with the locals. That way the kids grow up in japan and end up like the rest of the population, while screening their incoming labour force for behaviours that may cause confilict.

  • @KarolYuuki

    @KarolYuuki

    10 ай бұрын

    As a person who is trying to immigrate to Japan, trust me, they are still very selective. Unless you are from an English speaking country, you cannot get the most prevalent skilled job of English teacher. And if you are not of Japanese descent, you can't get the low skilled jobs on factories and such.

  • @Nabee_H

    @Nabee_H

    10 ай бұрын

    What about the USA? Its dealt with immigration relatively well and is probably one of the main countries that pushed for the globalization of immigration. Immigration has always happened for thousands of years; its why we have different ethnic backgrounds. France's issues arent only stemming from immigration but also a combination of horrible policy decisions.

  • @johndang887

    @johndang887

    10 ай бұрын

    @@thenightcorereapernigga that has never worked. Look at all the babies and families from Mexico that Ronald Raegan gave amnesty too in the 80s. the future hispanic generations now are anti America and pro mexican, basically colonizing the west coast. immigration all around is another form of colonization.

  • @JoJ.Sen1Jing
    @JoJ.Sen1Jing10 ай бұрын

    Japan has introduced laws that allow immigrants to be deported if they cause trouble. Now, if you come to Japan and cause trouble, we will respond.

  • @grimmlinn

    @grimmlinn

    10 ай бұрын

    The xenophobia of Japan is insane. It already had 300 years of isolation and got left behind. Enjoy your isolation and decline into obscurity.

  • @dorsia4167

    @dorsia4167

    10 ай бұрын

    That’s a good law.

  • @DaniG.German883

    @DaniG.German883

    10 ай бұрын

    @@grimmlinngonna cry?

  • @grimmlinn

    @grimmlinn

    10 ай бұрын

    @@DaniG.German883 Grow up and go back to school. You insult like a 4th grader and are laughable, lol.

  • @JoJ.Sen1Jing

    @JoJ.Sen1Jing

    10 ай бұрын

    @@grimmlinn xenophobia? no. Is it discrimination to deport criminals? You're a hypocrite. lol

  • @user-cvbnm
    @user-cvbnm9 ай бұрын

    About damm time

  • @cdn4767

    @cdn4767

    Ай бұрын

    No way, unless you’re willing to assimilate.

  • @kittokitto4284
    @kittokitto428410 ай бұрын

    Where is the news and official announcements of such changes?

  • @Mojavekight17
    @Mojavekight1711 ай бұрын

    The working culture in japan is the main problem

  • @BubbyBold

    @BubbyBold

    11 ай бұрын

    Work culture of Japan is an abomination in nearly every regard.

  • @ektherising

    @ektherising

    10 ай бұрын

    Work environment in Japan has significantly improved over last 20 years.

  • @kapifromnevada4697

    @kapifromnevada4697

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ektherisingso why stop there If we want to live in a better world We need the drive to improve It takes all of us to better Japan But action from Japanese people itself will be important Don’t lose hope brothers

  • @kapifromnevada4697

    @kapifromnevada4697

    10 ай бұрын

    @SebastienZarateC agreed but there might be more factors that I’m unaware of but are important to creating a better future

  • @kapifromnevada4697

    @kapifromnevada4697

    10 ай бұрын

    @SebastienZarateC then how are we supposed you solve the decline in population and the social problems if "we can't change" I personally think some kind of changes while being rational and open minded to preserveing the past.

  • @marcosdelvalle2926
    @marcosdelvalle292611 ай бұрын

    Japan's Parliament passed immigration legislation that further complicates the already strict conditions the country sets for asylum seekers They use the ius sanguinis Only 2 percent of the population is foreigner ( most of them are chinese,korean or brazilians nikkei) So many japanese are just neutral towards the foreigner an they start to get tired (they started to hate the kurds in Saitama) You never speak about the tatemae that japanese use to the foreigners that usually gives false hope to them so the integration is almost impossible Im sorry if my English is bad but im still learning.

  • @kellyname5733

    @kellyname5733

    10 ай бұрын

    Marcos you are correct about foreigners integrating. The Japanese will never 'really' accept foreigners...maybe in 50+ years it will be better and tatemae will be diminished.

  • @nippolitica

    @nippolitica

    10 ай бұрын

    Only 2% don't have Japanese citizenship. 98% do. But Japan doesn't track ethnicity or naturalisation once done. It's a strict binary. Japanese citizen or not Japanese citizen. This is an important factor to consider, because to so many in supposed "immigrant countries" do track these things, which means that non-native Japanese who naturalise are just... Japanese in a way even many hyphenated Americans or Brits or whatever are not.

  • @amehwican

    @amehwican

    10 ай бұрын

    I heard recently heard about the Kurds. Are they bad?

  • @nippolitica

    @nippolitica

    10 ай бұрын

    @@amehwican No group is "bad" universally. To think so is discriminatory. There have been recent clashes between Japanese immigrants of Turkish and Kurdish descent due to tensions between those groups historically. I am unqualified to speak about blame, fault, or the history involved. One would hope that all immigrants would leave their own prejudices behind, but human nature is otherwise.

  • @marcosdelvalle2926

    @marcosdelvalle2926

    10 ай бұрын

    They spend time fighting with the local population.

  • @saucepoisfosse
    @saucepoisfosse10 ай бұрын

    Imagine the amount of people who’s getting to realize it’s not close to as good as they believe

  • @fumihikofujimoto9069
    @fumihikofujimoto906910 ай бұрын

    I really enjoyed your video! The information was very informative and the presentation was clear and concise. I have a small suggestion. I think the two images used at 2:06 and 2:59 could be replaced. The current images might be outside of Japan, old so very difficult to see the details. I think replacing these images would improve the overall quality of the video. Thanks for making such a great video!

  • @sybrix
    @sybrix8 ай бұрын

    I have my fingers crossed that they implement a digital nomad/remote work visa in late 2023 as the rumors are stating! I would absolutely move there if their visa restrictions weren't painstakingly impossible for most educated professionals. It would jumpstart the economy for sure.

  • @wilkesmcdermid7906

    @wilkesmcdermid7906

    7 ай бұрын

    Digital Nomads would not help at all. Digital Nomads are infamous for not paying taxes. Infact they are a potential net negative if they get sick.

  • @arspsychologia4401
    @arspsychologia440110 ай бұрын

    PLEASE NO JAPAN STOP THIS NOW GET YOUR BIRTHRATE IN ORDER

  • @vitadude5004

    @vitadude5004

    10 ай бұрын

    Too late for that bruh ..

  • @francegamble1
    @francegamble110 ай бұрын

    I miss Japan, but my friends who I left say it isn't the same Japan I left 16 years ago.

  • @gordonbgraham

    @gordonbgraham

    10 ай бұрын

    I've lived in Japan since 1988. I felt that way in the 1990s, then in the 2000s I missed the 90s. Now, I just enjoy the moment.

  • @WeeeeeeebNation
    @WeeeeeeebNation10 ай бұрын

    The only reason why is starting to become a problem is because low birth rates and older generation is retiring. I mean Miyazaki retired so many times I've lost count. And with a work job that promotes seniority there is a lack of worker competition.

  • @oiocha5706
    @oiocha570610 ай бұрын

    Even with wide-open immigration, I don't see very many people immigrating to Japan. Wages and economy are stagnant, inflation is high, employment benefits and working hours are generally terrible, and it takes years and money to learn the language. Most immigrants will continue heading for Australia, Canada, America, etc. where all those issues are much better. Japan would be far better off working on fertility and automation

  • @marthlink5015
    @marthlink501511 ай бұрын

    There are definitely some points in the video i'd have to disagree with, like saying Japan has one of the most difficult cultures for foreigners to learn and immigrate with. That's a flat out lie- Japanese people love expressing their culture and tons of people have been mimicing, embracing, and loving Japanese culture for decades from historians, down to weebs they exist. Japan's Actual big problem is being constantly separated makes them often anti-social and unable to adapt or unwilling to, they do it to their own youth and their young work extraordinarily hard to be accepted in the work place, get homes etc- The same is for women their. Japanese women already have it rough, didn't like two Japanese prime ministers one after the other say on national T.V "Women have no place in politics and should keep their mouths shut". And they were only ousted due to extreme political competition and pressure not cause most of the other elderly members agreed. It's crazy Imagine being a foreign woman in Japan, some common people might respect you but alot of the japanese authority or landowners will make your life a living hell... and why? Cause your a woman born in a different place... yikes. Japan is often portrayed as clean, tidy, quiet, and orderly.... But under the surface it definitely has it's own controversial chaos, the Justice system, it's politics, landowning and business rights, individual rights, human rights--- and even past atrocities are very controversial things to this day. In short I kinda don't pity Japan with being so Closed-minded~ but I do applaud the Japanese Youth of today that will have to grow up strong to tackle the faults of their forefathers. Boomers man, messing it up no matter where they at XD

  • @detroid89

    @detroid89

    11 ай бұрын

    I hope the youth rise up one day and change the country for the better because it is currently dying a very slow painful death. Mindset change is a must if they want a future! And the bullshit oppression against women there in this day and age? What's up with that?

  • @cb8655

    @cb8655

    10 ай бұрын

    Japan propagates it’s own self-destruction by not shifting its culture, civilization, and way of life to a more foreign-friendly environment… It could learn from its Western counterpart England, for better or worse, on how multi-culturalisn has been for it.

  • @kiraistaynar2813

    @kiraistaynar2813

    10 ай бұрын

    yap. I have a friend who is studying in Japan and she said some train stations are dirty and stink af. There are also Yakuza and a group of delinquents in streets.

  • @bmona7550

    @bmona7550

    10 ай бұрын

    My birth country is actually slowly improving because they are slowly and gradually having more young people especially women in positions of power. Honestly the Japanese boomers in high positions are really the ones limiting the youth there. I really wish there is more younger people in power nowadays considering they are the ones long enough to see the consequences of our decisions not the older gen who will most likely focus on retiring in a few years.

  • @gaygoddessnamedmadoka2252

    @gaygoddessnamedmadoka2252

    10 ай бұрын

    @@bmona7550 idiot boomers should just rest on their retirement house man

  • @johnconnor2402
    @johnconnor240210 ай бұрын

    Japan: We want more people to have kids. Also Japan: You must stay at work until 9pm or you will look bad.

  • @Neuromancer2310

    @Neuromancer2310

    10 ай бұрын

    The problem is women's rights

  • @johnconnor2402

    @johnconnor2402

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Neuromancer2310 What do you mean by that? Women shouldn't have rights?

  • @Ufu4847

    @Ufu4847

    10 ай бұрын

    @@johnconnor2402There’s a woman on KZread who said that women shouldn’t have the right to vote. I think her name is Pearl.