Japan economics thread.

Abominable

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Japan is scrambling for solutions for increasing its labor force, but does anyone here actually believe the amount of migrant workers or its society will ever reach a point where the nation could be called "multicultural"?
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The Middle East has a guest worker system where migrants can only stay for a few years before returning to their homeland. I can imagine the Japanese implementing something like that, but less harsh.

This was going to happen eventually, Japan's demographic model is completely unsustainable.

It'll be interesting to see where these immigrants come from. There's not much excess population in Asia outside South Asia these days.
 

Hitomi

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The Middle East has a guest worker system where migrants can only stay for a few years before returning to their homeland. I can imagine the Japanese implementing something like that, but less harsh.

This was going to happen eventually, Japan's demographic model is completely unsustainable.

It'll be interesting to see where these immigrants come from. There's not much excess population in Asia outside South Asia these days.
I imagine it will be more of what they already have, such as Filipinos and Indochinese for menial work. Changes might come from where they source higher skilled labour, which will largely come from Europeans fed up with Western societal decline as well as South Americans.
 

coolgod

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I imagine it will be more of what they already have, such as Filipinos and Indochinese for menial work. Changes might come from where they source higher skilled labour, which will largely come from Europeans fed up with Western societal decline as well as South Americans.
Off-topic but just curious which Hitomi does your username refer to?
 

Heliox

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I imagine it will be more of what they already have, such as Filipinos and Indochinese for menial work. Changes might come from where they source higher skilled labour, which will largely come from Europeans fed up with Western societal decline as well as South Americans.
As of pre-covid (not sure of exact year), Japan already had a visa "loophole" for skilled labour. Some kind of "foreign liaison" visa that allowed companies to employ white collar workers from South East Asia at approx. 70~80% of local pay. It is ostensibly to support their operations in the region with native language speakers and local cultural knowledge but as my friend (from Indonesia working in Japan) tells me, he and his fellow "imports" do everything and are rarely used for the supposed official purpose.

It's really a way for Japanese MNCs to have access to a larger labour pool to recruit from as recruiting from a finite domestic labour pool will simply drive up wage cost.
 
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