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Japan records steepest population decline while number of foreign residents hits new high
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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If this was in the UK, there’d be a fear among certain groups that the “native” population was going to be replaced by immigrants. I wonder if there’s anything similar in Japan?
Ho boy, wait until you find out about how xenophobic Japan is.
Sure.
Speaking very broadly here, I define conservatism as needing an out of power group to shame/ostracize. Looking at Japan, 98% of the population is ethnically Japanese. 2% is immigrants. Hell I bet most of the people reading this already know the Japanese word for outsider without me even having to say it. It's a lock that Japanese conservatives are every bit as shitty as English or American conservatives.
I don't. What is the word?
Gaijin. I think this knowledge was much more common on the internet a long time ago tbh.
The most common one is “Gaijin” which is the impolite word for foreigner.
Japanese ultranationalists love a good political assassination
Have for a long time now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Blood_Incident
That happened a long long time ago in the UK, in like 40 AD or so.
Nah, like most instances, it's a smaller ruling class that imposes it's culture over the local populations who they've invaded; More conversion than replacement.
Japans immigration is actually surprisingly strict no ? I feel as the population ages more and more those laws will get a little more lax.
I mean, that's literally what's happening? I'm not sure what you mean there.
I'm not sure how 2% of the population being immigrants is replacing the native population.
2% today, but if the trend continues though
you know it's gonna die anyways since the population growth rate is declining in an all time low right?
That's a problem that came be fixed. But to those who like Japan and Japanese culture, immigration is not something that can be undone.
Well, yeah I guess it is in a way. But more like framing it as a negative thing, a fear of the loss of Japanese values and culture as the foreigners bring in their own.
But if you like Japan as it is, that's a valid concern. It's not immigrants magically forget where they come from.