I think COVID-19 will be a huge blessing for disguise in Japan. A ton of the leeches will be going home, especially when that heavy debt to GDP comes into reckoning.
Unlike Singapore, I actually doubt the government is thrilled about the prospects of endless waves of foreigners. Even in SG, the Indian freeloaders are starting get heavy pushback by the 75% chinese majority to revoke the CECA visa, which is basically a free work visa given ONLY to Indians.
Sure, Tokyo has a lot of foreigners. It's the largest city on earth. In 2018 the total number of foreigners in Japan was 2,382,822.
Of that 2.4m or so, around 700k are Chinese, and another 700k are Koreans. So that leaves us with around 1 million of third world "workers" aka Leeches.
For a first world country of 126 million, having 1 million foreign third world losers is as pure at it literally gets.
I think the "demise" of Japan as stated by some here is grossly overstated. Japan will still be Japanese in 2100.
I know that a large portion of Singaporean Chinese view the Mainland Chinese as scab labour, and completely different to the original Hokkien/Cantonese stock of Singapore Chinese. The 2013 Population White Paper estimates gathered a lot of opposition at the time, but ultimately will do little to change the demographic course.
Japan has currently 2.731 million foreigners in 2018, representing 2.16% of the population. In 1990, there was 0.984 million, which was 0.8% of the population. Ten years later in 2000, foreigners represented 1.32% of the population, numbering 1.686 million.
Foreign Residents of Japan - Origins
Tokyo has a foreigner population that is 3.7% of its total 2018 population (521,500 out of 13.82 million).
Of the 1 million children born in Japan in 2013, 2.2% had one or more non-Japanese parent
97% of children born in Japan are full blooded Japanese. Based on the birth data available, the rate of natural decrease should reduce within about 5-10 years. In tandem with the significant cultural differences between Japan, and other countries, I would have great confidence that Japan will remain Japanese beyond 2100.
In saying that, Japan could also follow the course of Italy which had a sharp increase (2.3% in 2001, to 8.34% in 2018) of foreigners over the last twenty years, as a percentage of the population. Of the Western European countries, Italy was seen as being most likely to avoid such a change in the demographic make up. Only time will tell.
Edit: Random trivia that supports the fact that more migrants leads to more crime.
According to the
ISPI, the Italian prison population in 2018 counted 59,655 and of those 34% were foreigners, with the largest groups coming from Morocco (3751), Albania (2568), Romania (2561), Tunisia (2070) and Nigeria (1453).
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