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According to Mainichi Daily Newspaper, Nippon Keidairen (Japan Business Federation) suggested Japanese government to start easing up the barrier of permanent immigrant policy to prevent from the further population decrease (the decrease of workforce in Japan). read more »
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If you've been to immigration before, you'll understand my fury. If not, you might be able to get an idea for how stupid that place is from this video. read more »
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Yes, it’s true. I have accomplished one of the goals I set out to do when I started working in Japan. I have convinced a native Japanese citizen with a bias against foreigners that immigration is a good thing and should be better promoted to the general public. read more »
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Articles on JapanToday.com have a habit of "expiring" so here it is, copied in full: rnrnA U.S. Homeland Security Department official voiced hope Tuesday that the Japanese government will start sometime in the future to take the fingerprints of all 10 fingers of each foreign visitor to step u read more »
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What Japan Thinks gives us some telling satistics about people's attitude to immigration. According to a recent survey, 62% thought the nation's unique cultural identity would suffer with further immigration. However, that statistic is actually from the UK, not Japan! Ken goes on to say that 65% read more »
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Japan continues its "Yokoso Japan" campaign with the post office issuing stamps promoting Japan to foreigners. However, these stamps seem more targ read more »
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Here's a great article from the Japan Times. Mark Schreiber left the country and re-entered with the sole purpose of testing out these new fingerpri read more »
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