Japan will create nursing homes run by Terminators before they ever consider large scale immigration.
Vaaluin on
I applied for a job in Sendai that I was qualified for in experience except I didn’t have a bachelors degree. My visa was denied because I only have an associates degree. Japan’s immigration laws are goofy.
BitingArtist on
They did it to themselves. I have no sympathy.
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Miracl3Work3r on
Reaper what you sow.
WhisperingSideways on
Have they tried making it crushingly difficult for younger people to live? Maybe that will help.
ElevatorPossible4331 on
What is happening in Japan and South Korea, EU and US will face 5-10 years from now. Italy is very close to Japan already
programaticallycat5e on
Japan can’t even recognized ethnically half-Japanese people as Japanese enough.
autoeroticassfxation on
There’s no labour shortage in Japan. Only a pay shortage and QoL shortage. They treat the workforce like crap over there. If they paid appropriately they would get plenty of people working there.
In fact it could be argued there’s never a labour shortage, only an employer class that doesn’t want to meet the market. If you can’t afford to meet the market, then do the work yourself.
MoarMagpies on
At least they’ll probably be smart about immigration and avoid the incompetent ways of Canada’s immigration system.
findthatzen on
They could fix it at any point no shortage of people that would be willing to move to japan
Javaddict on
Japan’s incredible post war population boom stabilizing, shocking!
meme_tenretni on
Good now take some of the Canadian immigrants crisis
TopGsApprentice on
Open borders fixes this
macross1984 on
I remember seeing Japanese anime titled, “Roujin Z” which was story about advanced robotic AI bed created to care for elderly people (except with a twist)
The anime was made in 1991 so the creator was well aware the future of Japan heading into demographic time bomb.
There’s been an influx of migrant workers to Japan to make up for the shortage of labour force. And the cultural clashes aren’t pretty.
Kannigget on
In response, they’ll make people work even harder, which will lead to people having even fewer children, making the problem even worse.
Lostw66 on
maybe if japan fix their toxic work culture
auxerre1990 on
There was some dude in another Japanese population reduction post that said he would move to Japan and marry a Japanese girl and help repopulate Japan with good and educated children. Why do you all think he was downvoted?
Maybe if people didn’t spend their youth in cram schools and work 70 hours a week every week they’d have time to make some babies. 🙄
hawkwings on
Japanese people can afford to live somewhere. If they brought in a bunch of immigrants, that could change.
ser_renely on
I think every developed nation has this problem, albeit not as bad
Sickle_Rick on
This is a cultural death-spiral. What will it be like when there’s more Japanese people living outside Japan than in it?
Considering the geographic value Japan presents to the US, external intervention may be on the horizon if serious changes aren’t made.
Busy_Professional824 on
Would love to see Japan and Korean repopulate. Such good looking and smart dna.
nixnaij on
This trend happens to all developing and developed countries. It’s the fertility vs gdp curve. This trend is seen regardless of culture, geographical location, politics, language, etc. The only country that is an exception is Israel, which has a unique cultural focus on large families, and has stayed at a relatively consistent 3.0 fertility rate for the last 4 decades.
1) Pays my immigration cost.
2) Pays for my medical care for life like a naturalised citizen.
Then I would immigrate TODAY.
The only thing keeping me back is the lack of healthcare I would receive – if I can get that guaranteed as an immigrant, I am IN.
S_Belmont on
>“I don’t think that’s going to happen, which means that a large portion of that drop in the domestic labor force has to be made up by better productivity of those young people who will remain,” Feldman said.”
“As a result of low birth rates, young people in a country known for death by overwork must be squeezed even harder,” says generic high-functioning business sociopath #86745678
joj1205 on
A probably completely created by their policy.
Won’t anyone think of the shareholders.
sourcingnoob89 on
This is not a real problem. They will slowly open up visas for foreign workers.
Look at Dubai. 3.6mm people made up of 2.7mm expats.
Japan has 125mm people with only 2mm expats. They can easily bring in millions of expats whenever they decide to “solve” the labor shortage.
Sea_Hear_78 on
Look at America..you have people on different sides of the political spectrum treating each other with disdain, distrust, and even in some cases inciting violence
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Japan will create nursing homes run by Terminators before they ever consider large scale immigration.
I applied for a job in Sendai that I was qualified for in experience except I didn’t have a bachelors degree. My visa was denied because I only have an associates degree. Japan’s immigration laws are goofy.
They did it to themselves. I have no sympathy.
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Reaper what you sow.
Have they tried making it crushingly difficult for younger people to live? Maybe that will help.
What is happening in Japan and South Korea, EU and US will face 5-10 years from now. Italy is very close to Japan already
Japan can’t even recognized ethnically half-Japanese people as Japanese enough.
There’s no labour shortage in Japan. Only a pay shortage and QoL shortage. They treat the workforce like crap over there. If they paid appropriately they would get plenty of people working there.
In fact it could be argued there’s never a labour shortage, only an employer class that doesn’t want to meet the market. If you can’t afford to meet the market, then do the work yourself.
At least they’ll probably be smart about immigration and avoid the incompetent ways of Canada’s immigration system.
They could fix it at any point no shortage of people that would be willing to move to japan
Japan’s incredible post war population boom stabilizing, shocking!
Good now take some of the Canadian immigrants crisis
Open borders fixes this
I remember seeing Japanese anime titled, “Roujin Z” which was story about advanced robotic AI bed created to care for elderly people (except with a twist)
The anime was made in 1991 so the creator was well aware the future of Japan heading into demographic time bomb.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z)
There’s been an influx of migrant workers to Japan to make up for the shortage of labour force. And the cultural clashes aren’t pretty.
In response, they’ll make people work even harder, which will lead to people having even fewer children, making the problem even worse.
maybe if japan fix their toxic work culture
There was some dude in another Japanese population reduction post that said he would move to Japan and marry a Japanese girl and help repopulate Japan with good and educated children. Why do you all think he was downvoted?
I wonder what it would be like to move to Japan…
There’s no labor shortage anywhere. Just PAY UP!
Tyrone Biggums: “Ya’ll got anymore a’them immigrants??”
Canadas kicking some “Grade A” immigrants out. Want them? Commmmme onnnnn!
Maybe if people didn’t spend their youth in cram schools and work 70 hours a week every week they’d have time to make some babies. 🙄
Japanese people can afford to live somewhere. If they brought in a bunch of immigrants, that could change.
I think every developed nation has this problem, albeit not as bad
This is a cultural death-spiral. What will it be like when there’s more Japanese people living outside Japan than in it?
Considering the geographic value Japan presents to the US, external intervention may be on the horizon if serious changes aren’t made.
Would love to see Japan and Korean repopulate. Such good looking and smart dna.
This trend happens to all developing and developed countries. It’s the fertility vs gdp curve. This trend is seen regardless of culture, geographical location, politics, language, etc. The only country that is an exception is Israel, which has a unique cultural focus on large families, and has stayed at a relatively consistent 3.0 fertility rate for the last 4 decades.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-fertility-rate-vs-level-of-prosperity
Hey man, they wanna homogeneous. Let them.
If Japan:
1) Pays my immigration cost.
2) Pays for my medical care for life like a naturalised citizen.
Then I would immigrate TODAY.
The only thing keeping me back is the lack of healthcare I would receive – if I can get that guaranteed as an immigrant, I am IN.
>“I don’t think that’s going to happen, which means that a large portion of that drop in the domestic labor force has to be made up by better productivity of those young people who will remain,” Feldman said.”
“As a result of low birth rates, young people in a country known for death by overwork must be squeezed even harder,” says generic high-functioning business sociopath #86745678
A probably completely created by their policy.
Won’t anyone think of the shareholders.
This is not a real problem. They will slowly open up visas for foreign workers.
Look at Dubai. 3.6mm people made up of 2.7mm expats.
Japan has 125mm people with only 2mm expats. They can easily bring in millions of expats whenever they decide to “solve” the labor shortage.
Look at America..you have people on different sides of the political spectrum treating each other with disdain, distrust, and even in some cases inciting violence