For the fourteenth year running, Japan's population has slumped to a record low. The non-foreign population dropped by nearly 900,000 — an unprecedented fall.
Japan could see a right wing backlash to the changing demographics at some point as we’ve seen in Europe.
They’d need to import a lot more before that happens (it seems 5% of the population being visibly foreign is the cutoff), but otherwise all the pieces are already in place. If America doesn’t survive Trump democracy is gonna die isn’t it?
Japan is very insular, especially around immigration policy, they don’t like foreigners. It’s the same thing going on in China right now. China is trying to encourage more births, but Hcol is basically the reason plus their one child policy has screwed the ratio of women in china
Japan is very insular, especially around immigration policy, they don’t like foreigners.
True, but also there simply aren’t enough foreigners there yet for them to progress from the “damn foreigners grumble grumble” phase to the “We must deport those foreigners or they’ll Westernize/Islamize our children and end the Japanese race!” phase. I mean it’s gonna happen eventually, but we still have a bit of grumbling before they start calling it a crisis.
They’d need to import a lot more before that happens (it seems 5% of the population being visibly foreign is the cutoff), but otherwise all the pieces are already in place. If America doesn’t survive Trump democracy is gonna die isn’t it?
Japan is very insular, especially around immigration policy, they don’t like foreigners. It’s the same thing going on in China right now. China is trying to encourage more births, but Hcol is basically the reason plus their one child policy has screwed the ratio of women in china
True, but also there simply aren’t enough foreigners there yet for them to progress from the “damn foreigners grumble grumble” phase to the “We must deport those foreigners or they’ll Westernize/Islamize our children and end the Japanese race!” phase. I mean it’s gonna happen eventually, but we still have a bit of grumbling before they start calling it a crisis.