海外の反応-日本の外国人問題とは何ですか?

海外のナナシさん

それに少子化の問題や、自分たちの経済や社会がもうアジアで一番じゃないって現実を突きつけられて、日本人のアイデンティティも揺らいでる。みんな社会のために多くを犠牲にしてきたのに、それでも報われないと感じてるんだ。

Japan is going through a rough time. Weak currency means it’s cheap for foreign tourists to vacation in Japan or buy up real-estate driving up prices for locals at restaurants, hotels, rent, etc. Japan is not used to being a massive tourist economy. Plus, the Japanese identity is under attack with low birthrates, the realization their economy and society aren’t the biggest and best in Asia, even with all they sacrifice in the name of society is a big blow.

Tourism is having an impact on society in Japan as most tourists don’t know the rules of the culture and are loud and disrespectful often out of ignorance. I’d be unhappy to if drunk, jetlagged tourists were driving go carts down my streets.

Japan also has a history of isolationism and a very close knit society. If your not Japanese you’ll never be fully integrated into Japanese culture no matter how long you live there. But, due to low birth rates, more immigrants are coming to Japan to work because Japan doesn’t have enough young people, or care givers for the elderly. These low skilled workers don’t speak Japanese well and are a reminder of how fast things are changing in Japan.

Also, unlike the rest of the world English isn’t the default business language and Japanese is notoriously difficult to learn, especially reading and writing. Along with a very structured work force it makes upward mobility for non-japanese nearly impossible.

But it’s the factor of weak currency, over tourism, loss of global prestige, and dwindling population that has the Japanese people scared and foreigners are any easy scapegoat.

海外のナナシさん

I’d like to add something like 3-5% of babies born in the country are born to at least one parent who is not Japanese and rising. In a country with such low birth rates this could become a large number quickly which would, to the Japanese, lose their identity to “hafu”. There is of course going to be pushback on this issue because foreigners can’t afford to stay in their home country so they come to Japan to start a new life and gentrify the whole country.

Edit: idk why the downvote I never said it was a right opinion just that it is a popular opinion in Japan.

海外のナナシさん

So basically what you’re saying is that people are afraid that the “superior Japanese genes” can be tainted by “impure foreign blood”, even when 3-5% of mixed kids is literally nothing demographically speaking, with Japanese people themselves being a mixture of different waves of immigrants from Korea and China, and even when culture has nothing to do with genetics, as it’s something you learn, not something you’re born with. Sounds like irrational ethnonationalism to me, especially given how Japan has 123 million people, so the population is not “getting replaced” because 3 out of 100 kids is mixed… especially when you look at the countries of origin of the bast majority of immigrants and you realize that 76% of them come from East Asian countries with relatively similar cultures or are ethnic Japanese people from Brazil or Peru.

and gentrify the whole country

That’s not really true because the problem if anything is that the country is extremely centralized, which forces people to move to the only places that assure you a good salary (or work to begin with). The bast majority of prefectures outside of Kanto and Kansai are actually losing population and housing is quite cheap there, if anything the government should try to decentralize the country to avoid turning the likes of Tohoku, Chugoku and Shikoku into demographic deserts while also unblock the excessive population density in Tokyo.

海外のナナシさん

I feel it’s mostly from the low birth rates. As the native population falls, the foreigners who choose to settle in Japan, unconsciously suggests a cultural and demographic change on a large scale. Even I would feel uncomfortable if my neighbourhood starts filling with a population that doesn’t belong to my country, aren’t native to it, aren’t culturally or traditionally settling in.

I feel a country is its population. If there ever comes a day, God forbid it happens, when there are more non-Japanese people in Japan than the japanese people, the country begins to lose its identity. Japanese culture, tradition, history and value is carried by its people. If they are overshadowed by whomsoever, it wouldn’t sit well.

海外のナナシさん

They have to blame someone for their miserable lives lol foreigners are an easy scapegoat.

海外のナナシさん

They aren’t though. The problems caused by foreigners are not economic ones.

海外のナナシさん

To be completely honest. This is a thing that many countries in a similar position to Japan are dealing with, I’m not totally sure what is the solution (if there exists one at all).

海外のナナシさん

The solution is to push back against right wing politicians who lazily mine vague anti-foreigner sentiment to win elections. That this problem exists in many countries is a byproduct of the fact that basically every democracy in the world has a right wing political establishment that blames immigrants for every problem they possibly can.

海外のナナシさん

I can’t see any developed country with barely 3% foreign people and a massive tourist influx beside Japan.

And normally, people are smart enough to separate the two. For example, you will see demo in Barcelona against tourism, because over tourism is a thing there. But it’s not like they are going to be “bah foreigners shit, foreigners shat, let’s make sure we blame them for everything and make them our principal target in our policy”.

Only Japan because of their “group” thinking managed to put tourist AND immigrants in the same cell. And blame immigrants for tourists bad manners.

Why? Because both are foreigners. So yeah at some point you should ask the real question “what’s Japan problem with foreigners?” And the answer isn’t pleasant, but we know it.

海外のナナシさん

Voters aren’t actually mad about the tourists though. If you read those racist yahoo news comments you’ll see things like “ban all foreigners except for tourists.” It really is just a weird racial identity thing for Japan’s far right. Most of those people are probably hikikomori who weren’t going to visit the over touristed world heritage sites anyway.

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