by KaiserJeep » Mon 14 Jan 2019, 14:10:38
Time for some of those "damned statistics". I gleaned the following from Wikipedia on the search "Immigration to Japan":
Total authorized foriegn nationals resident in Japan are 1.75% of the population, and illegal immigrants are almost zero, estimated below 0.1%. The authorized foriegners break down as follows:
-Special permanent resident status
-Permanent Resident status
-Status of Residence based on Status or Position (Descendants of Japanese nationals)
-Individuals living in the country as registered spouses of Japanese nationals
-Individuals granted limited duration employment visas
-Individuals granted limited duration student or academic research visas
-Individuals on limited duration Technical Intern Training Program visas
-Registered refugee and asylum seekers
Japan is a signatory to the UN's "1951 Refugee Convention" and the "1967 Protocol". However, Japan rejects far more asylum applicants than other countries. For example the USA, Canada, and Germany each approve about 40% of asylum applicants, whereas in Japan the average since the refugee treaties is 0.2%. In 2017 for example, Japan approved 20 out of 19,828 applicants.
As a former USCG member, I will say of Japan that it has one of the most effective Coast Guard forces in the world. There are no boatloads of refugees coming ashore in Japan.
Perhaps you were not aware of racial strife in Japan. It exists and is hardly publicized by anyone, this is the briefest of summaries. I experienced it on the island of Hokkaido during the 1970s, while wearing a USCG uniform. In terms of Japanese of Japanese ethnicity, the Wajin majority, which originated as Korean immigrants and spawned the Samurai culture in fuedal Japan, has historically repressed the Ainu, which are the original island inhabitants. The Ainu share a common ancestry with the Kuril Islanders of Russia, and most live on the Northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. The majority of Japanese are Wajin and pretty much detest the Ainu, the Gaijin (foriegn devils), and anybody in a US uniform, which is something that dates back to when MacArthur was Governor of occupied Japan following WW2. They also seem to have some lingering animosity towards us because we dropped two nuclear weapons on the Japanese mainland.
In any case, Ibon used the word "insular", and that about sums it up. It's their island, they pretty much have a distinct culture, and want to keep it that way. Not to mention the overpopulation.
I'm not sure if they will ever change, but compared to the USA, which has hundreds of miles of open borders, Japan has no problem with immigrants. My office at my former employer was near the two Japanese liasons, which I got to know. Unlike all other countries, the Japanese branch of the company employed only Japanese, plus a couple of miserable tokens. They also had products shipped to a "remanufacturing facility" in Japan, where they stripped off packaging in other languages, substituted Japanese translations for multi-lingual labelling, and even applied Japanese labels over product markings. We were also warned that when we (meaning US employees) communicated with the Japanese, that they reserved the word "Domestic" strictly for Japanese products, and anything called "International" was despised.
They were of course, oh so polite about these things. But they'll likely never have immigration problems, unless their numbers fall to where they can no longer defend their own islands.
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