No, but to franchise every single one to obtain Japanese citizenship even by fully accepting dual citizenship therefore is a must. Even if there is not enough, Japan should be taking all nikkei back before accepting one complete foreigner.
If we are short, we ought to be taking every single one back. Many are forced to give up Japan because of dual nationality restrictions, and that only worsens the decline. I feel that we must remove this restriction first.
Sigh, where to start? I suspect this will be more than one post...
1. Who says nikkei want to be "taken back"? Being nikkei means they didn't even have a choice in being born elsewhere, and many are happy where they are.
2. Accepting a "complete foreigner" may be as advantageous as accepting a nikkei, who for all intents and purposes may speak zero Japanese and know little of his Japanese heritage, while some foreigners may know more of both.
3. Don't like dual nationality restrictions? Fight to change them so that Japan accepts dual nationality, not funnels its nikkei and sankei into being full-time Japanese citizens. However, don't
force them to be Japanese, either.
I am sure that many Japanese also would rather contend with our expatriated ethnics of common ancestry as it is still our own garbage to deal with, than someone else who cannot fully integrate.
So, now your own heritage-related kind are "garbage"? This implies you don't approve of them living abroad, which may not have been their decision. Staying abroad is, and that may simply pose a better life on them. Oh, and if you believe the
majority of Japanese would welcome the expat Japanese, ask your government its feelings on the Brazilians.
We must begin opening diversity by first opening up Japan from what Japanese people are most capable of doing first, accepting their own first
There aren't enough to help with the declining birthrate. You need foreigners.
we can ease the shock of foreign workers with the storyline that the government did its best
"Storyline" sounds sooooooooo sincere. Total B.S. and you know it!
No, I am not racist in that way. Japan is a country for Japanese people. United States and Canada is a country for the world. Everyone else is simply a guest.
There you have it. Totally obvious to the fact that one is indeed racist. Japan is trying to appear to be international or globalized, but not hard enough. Because of its (and your) narrow-minded attitudes, it has severe problems with its foreign population and its own declining birthrate. If Japan is truly only for Japanese, why don't you kick out all the expats, the dual nationalities, and my son who is half Japanese? Answer: you can't, you shouldn't, and you won't because you need them and would be in even more serious problems with the UN than you are now.
Maybe the Nikkei Brazilians didn't try to fit in as much because they were upset that they were not treated as full citizens and that they would be given the label as a gaikokujin.
Bollocks! Tell that to Fujimori, who was let in freely despite being a criminal in his own country.
For many Japanese, citizenship is a big part of their national identity, and to take that away is like taking away the katana from a samurai. Something gaijin do not seem to understand, and never understand.
More racist claptrap.
On the other hand, Japan is well set in it's culture and traditions, I don't think relaxing it's immigration policies is going to throw the whole country into a malestrom of cultural insecurity. In fact, Japan seems to be doing a fairly good job of adopting foreign infulences without the help of mass immigration.
What foreign influences are you referring to? Rock and roll? Fashion? The government is precisely scared of the maelstrom you refer to and is extremely culturally insecure. Just look at its policies on teaching English in primary school as one small example.
At this point in world history it can be only a negative thing to try and shut out the world for the sake of 'remaining pure'. They have to decide which is more important, the continued success of their economy and position in the global market, or racial purity.
The problem is, Japan wants both.
People are making a bigger issue of it than it is. Every time the subject of immigration into Japan comes up you will inevitable hear someone saying 'Japan isn't like the US or Canada', well who's asking them to be? Accepting foreign workers isn't going to make the country any less Japan....but like I said, they seem to be doing well enough trying to westernize without the help of foreign immigration.
Who says hiring foreign workers will westernize the culture? I don't get this point at all.
