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Some foreign communities face growing hostility and being blamed by locals, as Japan is facing a significant challenge with rising …
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The reality is Japan cannot survive as a nation without foreigners. Decades of bad gov't financial decisions, currency manipulation, ever increasing taxes, stagnant labor wages, have caused Japanese people to become much less prosperous. The country's debt to GDP is a whopping 200%. Yes the debt is twice the amount of all the money the gov't takes in. Instead of saying the problem is from the few foreigners who didn't pay their medical bills or taxes, Japanese people should ask their gov't where all their decades of tax money has gone to have a 200% debt. Failed enforcement of harassments in the workplace and excessive overtime hours without pay, have destroyed the family dreams of young people. They don't want to get married and many can't afford having a family, thus causing low birth rates. A 4 year college degree only earns about 200,000 yen a month. At the current birth rate, the country can't exist in 100-150 years. Xenophobia and racism unfairly target foreigners. In 2024 tourism from foreigners contributed a significant 45 Trillian Yen to the economy. That's about 8%. With the politicians saying get rid of all the foreigners–that's laughable as the country would financially collapse within months, plus be under siege from China if the US military also left. Haneda and Narita airports would shut down–imagine the impact of just those two facilities and the 10's of thousands of jobs created from foreign travel. Now multiply that across the whole country. So go ahead and blame the stupid gaijin who flicked a cigarette off the balcony or placed the wrong trash out on the curb for all your problems–you simply cannot survive without us.
The part that makes me laugh is the asylum seekers part under who receives welfare…who is seeking asylum all the way in Japan?! I’m sure it’s probably not other East Asians….
I’m gonna take a guess it’s the Kurds and other Middle Easterners maybe? There has to be MUCH stricter rules about where “asylum seekers” can go. Islam is not compatible with Japan and they bring problems with them everywhere they go. It’s not a race thing—it’s that they don’t aim to assimilate. They treat everywhere they go like it’s theirs. They invade.
That finished so abruptly. Is there part two?
There is anti foreigner politicians in every country (Reform UK, MAGA, Rassemblement National, etc). They represent the views of a few trolls and racists. Pay them no heed.
The truth of the matter is most countries are hurting in some way right now, and some Japanese, like other people around the world, choise to blame minorities for their problems.
The math doesn't add up when you actually look at the issues and in all likelihood the source of Japans problems lie in an aging population who consume more in social care and security than young people who have to shoulder the burden of paying for them.
For some reason muslim immigrants create problems everywhere, Indians stink everywhere, Chinese are loud everywhere. I felt a siginificant quality drop in service when Gaijin were serving me in Japan. 3% immigrants is a lot already
That screeching Karen needs to shut up and have more children
Almost 30-35% of my annual income is going on country tax + city tax and rest 10-15% of my annual income is going to my health insurance and pension, so almost 50% of my annual income is going into Japanese government, i have never complained because i think i am contributing to Japan, but if people like us get treated like that without any evidence it just wrong morally and plain racism.
WHICH foreigners? No, answer it correctly and precisely. WHICH foreigners?
come on, there are barely any PR foreigners in Japan. Making foreigners as if they're half of Japan is ridiculous. most of these foreigners these Japanese machoist are afraid of are the foreign labourers who are helping them with their economy because Japan is in dire need of labour. If these people contrbute to your economy wouldn't it be ok if you give them some healthcare. They're being paid crumbs anyway, and Japan got a lot of benefit having cheap labours
Interesting
外人をおいだせ
I think it's obvious after watching the video that the problem isn't that the welfare is used by foreigners, the problem for them is that the foreigners are there.
What should my country do when hundreds of thousands of japanese people came to live here? Should we ostracize them and exploit them like they are saying in the video? Like they are always an outsider, with all the duties but no benefits. That's not what happened, we embraced them, and now we have the biggest population of japanese descendants outside japan.
Let's say that the foreigners somehow are now unable to get any benefit, will they be exempt of taxes? That's the right thing to do right? They don't use it, so they don't have to pay. But that's not what these people in the video want, they just want the right to explore as much as possible without giving anything in return.
The thing is, your country is in big trouble, and is not foreigners fault, your politicians and your apathy for politics put yourself in that situation. You are the country with the hightest debt/gdp ratio, and with a declining population. The truth is that the foreigners can always go to another country, they already moved once, they can do again, but you, japanese people, the reality is that you need the foreigner workforce.
Instead of generalizing and trying to punish all the foreigners, why not open programs that bring qualified people, and make possible that those people integrate in the society. And about crimes, punish the people that commit crimes, as should be, if that don't resolve, deport them.
Good luck trying to copy this crap from EUA politcs, you're just following a trend, you're guys are not even being original.
When I first came to Japan over 30 years ago, my boss asked me if I wanted to join the national pension service. When she explained that I probably would never pay in long enough to qualify for a pension, I didn't join. A few years ago they changed the length of time to receive benefits. Of course, by then it was too late for me,,
12:31 It's actually pretty big progress for a right wing politician to admit that Imperial Japan wasn't some kind of benevolent liberation project. Maybe one day they'll be able to acknowledge that loving Japan and Japanese culture doesn't mean that you have that you have to deny the genuine mistakes Japan made in the 20th century. That being said, I don't personally think that a relatively small number of foreigners are going to be capable of totally remaking Japanese culture in their image.
0:37 Oh, this asshole again
Even as a foreigner resident myself, I was shocked when I was told the municipality was giving away money to all residents that were not making income in Japan. For instance, students have some tax exemption benefits (rightly so, many will return to their country), but they all receive welfare benefits since they are considered "poor" for not having income in Japan. I mean, Japan does a well job making sure students have enough money to support themselves for the length of their study before giving them visas. But then, they hand tax payer money for them too because they consider them "poor". I think it's because of measures like this that Japanese nationals feel this way about foreigner residents. So answering to Hirano-san (2:37): はい、それはおかしいです。
I think Japan should close it's borders once again, stop importing natural resources like LNG and coal or minerals and metals, retreat from the global market, stop traveling abroad. Japan's xenophobia is very hypocritical, because if not for the west they would still live in houses from wood and paper and fight with katanas, and of course no electricity. And forget about Universities and Hospitals. Oh, and the collapsing demographic. Young japanese people don't want to have children or even engage in opposite sex relationships. Japanese people will decimate their population on their own. Some Japanese man even suggested that the elderly should commit seppuku to lift the burden from the younger generation. We just have to wait 50-100 years.
It’s should not happen from the beginning! Who don’t pay they have nothing to Expect from NHS!😢Sorry for Japanese people
他の国にも多くの日本人がいます。彼らは外国人として住んでいる場合もあれば、その国の市民権を持っている場合もあります。その国にいる間、選挙に投票したり、土地を購入する権利を持ったり、福祉の恩恵を受けたりすることができます。
だったら、日本も同じようにすべきではないでしょうか？公平という意味では当然のことです。
それとも、「他の国が日本人に公平に接するべきだ」というだけで、日本は他国の人々に対して同じように扱う必要はないのでしょうか？
外人を全て追い出せ
日本人は貧困化していて外国人とか政府を敵視することで対立を煽るようなナショナリズムが台頭しています。少子高齢化で労働力やGDPが落ち込む中移民も無視できない中、こういう排外主義みたいなのが蔓延してるのは、同じ日本人として非常に危機感を抱いています。
always the same strategy, no matter the country: blame the foreıgners when the government dıd everythıng wrong and ıs corrupt to the core.
the total populatıon ın Japan ıs composed of about 3.3% of foreıgners, about half are payıng theır dues, so Japan ıs ın a recessıon/ınflatıon just because about 2% of those foreıgners do not pay theır taxes?? 2% can cause ıssues to the other 98% !? the japanese are so easıly deceıved! they are at a loss because thıs ıs unprecedented (rıce prıce, etc) and the gov ıs panıckıng.
although ıt ıs true that when you ımport the 3rd world to your country you do tend to become the 3rd world: just look at the western world.
from a frenchman, marrıed to a japanese, wıth a daughter, not gettıng any welfare and workıng overseas.
This guy is always giving a voice to the xenophobic Japanese. I pay all my taxes, including pension contributions (which I will not benefit from because I don’t intend to stay in Japan in old age) and health contributions (of which I don’t benefit either because I never need a doctor), so I’m paying a lot every year to subsidise Japanese people and their hospitals etc. And there are many many people like me, young people who are paying health insurance contributions but they are young and are not a pressure on the system because we seldom use doctors. We are net contributors, not net recipients. Stop blaming foreigners for your huge problems. The public debt and pressures on your health system are caused by your aging population, not a small handful of foreigners who haven’t paid an occasional medical bill.
Although an American citizen, I am a permanent resident, having lived, worked, and paid taxes in Japan for only 43 years. Despite having once been a tenured professor in a Japanese college, refused to accept money from Todai, Waseda, and Sophia to judge their All Japan English Speech contests, was one of only two native speakers of English in the country on the MEXT English textbook committee at any given time, a vice-president and board member of a city-funded NPO, and having been engaged in many community outreach activities as a volunteer … but I have accumulated no social currency or even friends in my particular local community.
Despite looking for post-retirement work (even volunteer) as a local community English teacher, the locals prefer to have their children taught by fellow Japanese . Rather than as a potential long-time resource or partner, I am seen more as 'over qualified' and too competent — a potential threat to young entrepreneurs hoping to set up 'schools' as business ventures.
As shown in the video, now that I am no longer considered to be useful for any institution, some young and ambitious politicians also regard me as no more than a burden on the Japanese government's budget. I am a problem because of who I am, not because of what I have done or am likely to do. Some imply I should be ashamed of myself for simply living here so long, and not being born a Japanese citizen. Mix this with the movie 'Plan 75' or its predecessors, various remakes of 'The Ballad of Narayama', I should be further disposed of … to make way for a new generation of ore-ore hustlers and ambitious politicians.
I think Japan is heading for another Sakoku Period.
Foreigners should hardly be a part of the political conversation in Japan. We can’t vote. We are a tiny minority. Japan has a million other problems that come before anything to do with foreigners. Just keep immigration controlled and sensible. The real thing these political advocates need to investigate is why taxes are so high and continue to go up, why salaries never go up, how Japan is going to deal with a massive population decline, how they are going to keep their industries alive, and their defensive posture in the Pacific.
As I stated previously, I still don't blame the Japanese who are further simmering and boiling in anger and plus, most forget tend to forget the viral videos of Social Media Influencers and causing so much trouble like the guy dancing inside the train and that girl who did an exercise in the shrine temple, those videos are still trending, not just in Japan but in other Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and now PH; so foreigners trying to be defensive while they may have some reason, but it's not also gonna further help them as related to Welfare or other issues.
Similar in other developed countries like in the U.S. but most are illegals.
Culture.
I think it depend.
If the foreigner are there just for vacation, i dont think they need to learn everything about japan, not even the language. They just need to follow tour guide, behave nicely and respect japan culture.
But if the foreigner decide to become japan citizen, then yes, they need to learn japan culture and japan language. Because now they are citizen of japan. Though they cant change their race to japanese, at least they can place japan in their heart and soul through learning their language, loyal to the country, and following, respecting its culture. But if after showing devotion, loyalty etc to japan and still get discrimination, then the mistake is on japan. I mean the person did nothing wrong and you are the one accepting them as japan citizen, so why did not treat them like other japan citizen ?
I think Japan need to give more filter, more specific filter to foreigner who decide to become japan citizen, i mean, many specific filter like if you want the foreigner have fluent japan language then just write it down in the condition "must an expert and speak fluently japan language", if want the foreigner learn japan culture then write in condition "must learn and follow japan culture, behave nicely and according to japan culture", if dont want foreigner forcing their previous country culture, write it down in condition "will not force your previous country culture to japan culture ?", put all the criteria, etc in the condition and if they cant agree with it then simply reject their citizenship ! it will remove most later problem. And if they did not obey their own agreement, you have all the right to cancel their citizenship.
Not, accepting everything then complain here and there about the person which is not required in the condition later. I mean you accept them as citizen with A condition, so if the person act freely and follow the A condition they agree with, so why suddently it become a problem ? why they being judge of a new popup condition ? B, C, D condition they never sign or agree about ?
Like for example, for them to become japan citizen maybe they never being asked or sign an agreement to follow its culture and not to force their culture to japan culture, and need to be an expert in japan language. So when they do it why it become a problem ? i mean the country itself did not think of it as a must condition and it did not get included in the term and condition, so why this condition suddenly become important or become a problem now after they become citizen ? if its so important they should put it in the term and condition before they even become citizen in the first place.
And if it want to promote racism, like foreigner who become japan citizenship cant vote, harder to buy land and last in welfare benefit its okay too, as long as its written in the citizenship agreement, so they know what to expect and had decision to accept it or to leave it.
And if japan country decide to do this in the name of race, i think its only fair if all nation around the world united and do the same thing in their own country special only to japanese people which had other country citizenship, by doing exactly what their country do to other race, make them cant vote, harder to buy land and last in welfare benefit, so its only fair.
Taxes.
I think anyone, i mean anyone, japanese or non japanese but japan citizen who did not pay the taxes did not deserve its benefit(except the poor).
But its just my perspective.