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ono said:
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What kinds of labor are they short on? It is surprising that they would rather pull in jeets over other people worldwide that would probably love to live there but just need to learn the language and specific social customs like elevator order etiquette and what have you.

Sucks knowing a lot of the worst weebs in the past pretty much just learned Japanese to flood the English teacher market, lol.
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I thought most of the foreign workers were flips and Indonesians
 
Nursing and low-level hospital staff seem to be other areas that've been plugged with foreign workers.

Tourist-facing services like hotels are also generally hiring foreigners as bellhops and cleaners and such.

Japanese people have the same excuse a lot of Americans used to give, that if foreign people are doing the icky labor jobs no "self-respecting" person would do then they can focus on important things like... Idk video games or some shit.
 
The illusion of choice: the left wing party's policy is to import 6 gorrilion jeets and niggers, and the right-wing party's policy is 5 gorillion instead. Many such cases!
 
Mysterious Girlfriend X said:
The number of doomer faggots tripping over each other to blunder into this thread tells me that things are going to start improving in Japan.
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Yeah, I get people are used to being disappointed in supposedly anti-immigration politicians not actually doing much about the issue, but looking at Japan super majority voting in the most right-wing and anti-immigration person they realistically could and acting like they voted in a communist before any policies have really been made or shaken out yet comes off as either autistic doomerism or just being disingenuous. Watch how things play out a little first before sperging too much.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
I get people are used to being disappointed in supposedly anti-immigration politicians not actually doing much about the issue,
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I'm a Japan exceptionalist about many things, but not about this. The world—whoever that is—has decided. No civilized country is allowed to resist being browned, and whenever they do, they're punished with ever more intense browning, e.g., UK after Brexit, fully opened borders after Trump I that Trump II is powerless to reverse, Meloni's betrayal, etc etc. If Japan tries any shit, it'll be drowned in jeets.

Not a doomer. Post-doomer. Doom is past/given.

All the people who've voted to stop this, and the politicians who've tried lawfully to do the people's will, everywhere in the world, have done the right thing—a small brave thing, every one. And it doesn't matter.
 
I'm actually cautiously optimistic at the moment. I think the labor visa quota including current visa holders it's a smart move.

I wish we had more specifics on how exactly they're going to crack down on illegal immigrants. Are we getting J-ICE?

I also wish they'd talk about special status visa holders like refugees. Kurds in Japan are the fucking worst, it's been a clear non-assimilation issue for like a decade now and nothing's ever been done. They were the only blight on an otherwise decent area to live in.

The only other thing I worry about is cost of living. I don't think they're going to be able to ignore the stagnant wages for much longer without a breaking point being reached. You've got reporters interviewing kids about how they don't get to eat eggs anymore because they're too expensive.
It's spilling over into things like loans, where the interest rates keep fluctuating wildly between different banks because no one can predict what's going to happen economically/legally in the next few years.
 
Donald_J_Trump said:
Never ever trust a Female politician.

I hope she is the exception to the rule.
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Typed by: spiritually Indian MIGA hands. Male politicians such as every prime minister of Japan from the early 90s until October 21st 2025 opened the door to imported labor and/or keep it open but Thunderdome incels would rather ignore this and freak out over Takaichi instead because they want to sperg about women bad.
 
Retarded Weeb said:
Yeah, I get people are used to being disappointed in supposedly anti-immigration politicians not actually doing much about the issue, but looking at Japan super majority voting in the most right-wing and anti-immigration person they realistically could and acting like they voted in a communist before any policies have really been made or shaken out yet comes off as either autistic doomerism or just being disingenuous. Watch how things play out a little first before sperging too much.
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Don't worry guys. THIS TIME the country is going to give up the drug of foreign slave labor. I know that's never actually happened but just, please, trust the plan.
 
ono said:
What kinds of labor are they short on? It is surprising that they would rather pull in jeets over other people worldwide that would probably love to live there but just need to learn the language and specific social customs like elevator order etiquette and what have you.

Sucks knowing a lot of the worst weebs in the past pretty much just learned Japanese to flood the English teacher market, lol.
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the kind of labor college educated people genuinely don't want to do:

hospitality, caregiving, manufacturing, retail, ect. The huge demand for foreign labor is driven equally in part by small business. Probably half of izakaya and local business would collapse without foreign labor in the kitchens and backrooms. Seeing one 80 year old geezer taking orders (owner) and two brown guys in the kitchen is a very common setup. These are not the type of places you can just automate with robots.

Unlike the US, actually getting a any job is dead simple in Japan. Every retail establishment is short of labor and every worker is doing way bigger scope tasks than they were intended to do. I guarantee you, in 2026, you can walk into any HelloWork office with no skills and walk out with a minimum wage job.

Also, there are few actual jeets (I assume this means people from India, Pakistan, Bangledesh) in Japan. Nepalese are very common and visible in Tokyo but they are mountain jeets with a somewhat different temperament than subcontinentals. Carefree but relatively honest, very adaptable people.

We Are The Witches said:
How far does the Yakuza hand go into the Japanese police nowadays? I.e: how corrupted is it at current year.
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it really depends on the location. tokyo is virtually yakuza free in the last twenty years. places like kitakyushu still have some yakuza presence but overall they are very weak and dying off from old age. Japan successfully destroyed the crime organizations by aggressively targeting them financially. Yakuza can't sign any contracts without lying about not being a member of a crime group, so they can't even own phones or buy cars or property. While the higher ups have ways around this, nobody new wants to join just to get debanked for life.

Police in japan can be corrupt anyways though. Some areas like Kawasaki are notorious for corrupt cops. They will shake down drivers and steal "evidence".
 
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Steve Pinto said:
Yakuza can't sign any contracts without lying about not being a member of a crime group, so they can't even own phones or buy cars or property. While the higher ups have ways around this, nobody new wants to join just to get debanked for life.
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Funny anecdote about this, when I was signing a contract for my apartment, one of the documents that my landlord and I had to sign was a paper stating that we both aren't members of criminal organizations like the Yakuza
 
GratsTheat783 said:
How prominent is religion in Japan nowadays? I've heard most people over there declare themselves Atheists, but they apparently have a different definition of the word.
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During my time there awhile back someone described it to me as 'Japanese are whatever religion has the best costume at the moment.' Shinto birth ceremonies, Christian weddings, and Buddhist funerals. Largely agonistic I'd say? Everyone would go to the shrine for New Years and stuff but I don't think they believed whatever those religions were on about, it was more the 'thing to do'.

Also my Xitter feed is full of dooming about the Nips letting in tons of mudslimes along with the street shitters. Anyone on the ground know more? I went last summer and was blown away by the number of street streets in every shop.
 
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