As it seems, Japan is going to encourage foreign workers to stay in Japan long-term. As said earlier, foreigners with good knowledge in the Japanese language are from now on getting favorable treatment in visa applications. This time it's better than that, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) wants to set up an immigration agency to help foreign workers, this includes providing language lessons for those who need it. They're also going to renew the current training programmes so that employers can't use that as an excuse for paying unfairly low wages.
We might see more news like this in the coming years since Japan's birthrate is still dropping. Japan has the lowest ratio of children to the general population in the world with 13.5%, next is Germany and Italy with 14.1%. So if Japan doesn't manage to increase it's birthrate, Japan lies in the hands of foreign workers. However, Japan is not planning to allow a mass-scale immigration since that would most definitely lead to lower wages for Japanese workers and a higher crime rate. That's a fact, take a look at my country (Sweden) for an example.
This is good news anyway, as long as they keep rejecting the idea of allowing a mass-scale immigration, Japan lies in the hands of the right foreigners. Meaning foreigners who actually have a good reason for coming to Japan.
Read the whole article from AFP
Japan Lies in the Hands of Immigrants
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Japan just keeps beating themselves out every year for the lowest national birthrate. I think I heard it's 27 years consecutively now that they've broken their own record.
It seems that people in Japan just aren't interested in having children anymore. But I can somewhat understand it, considering the different types of lifestyles that can so easily prevent men and women from even getting faithfully married anymore.
This is a really interesting topic. I might try and give my take on it soon if I'm brave enough. :)
Most people probably care so much about their career that they just don't have the time to have kids. Having a career in Japan seems to be very time consuming, at least compared to Sweden. I bet Japanese work more than the usual 9 to 5.
Indeed it's an interesting topic, I'll definitely be a part of the discussion if you ever write about it. ;)
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