Northern Comfort
Kouhai
- 1 Dec 2005
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In the UK, walk into a coffee shop, or a restaurant and 70% of the time you're going to be served by an Eastern European, usually a Polish immigrant.
Likewise, most people working in low-wage, low-skill jobs in the UK are Eastern European immigrants, and in fact I would say British companies prefer to employ Eastern Europeans as they're usually just happy to have a job and don't complain about long hours or demand their employment rights like "lazy" British people do.
However, we all know in Japan this is not the case, and pretty much all low-wage, low-skill positions in Japan are filled by Japanese people almost exclusively.
Why has Japan not chosen to have a liberal immigration policy like the UK? Superficially, both countries seem similar. Densely populated island nations, constitutional monarchy, both industrialised at similar times, yet the two nations have vastly different approaches to immigration.
What is it about the social and political climate of Japan that has resulted in minimal immigration?
Also, I don't see how anyone can accuse this post of being racist while at the same time supporting the Japanese immigration policy.
Likewise, most people working in low-wage, low-skill jobs in the UK are Eastern European immigrants, and in fact I would say British companies prefer to employ Eastern Europeans as they're usually just happy to have a job and don't complain about long hours or demand their employment rights like "lazy" British people do.
However, we all know in Japan this is not the case, and pretty much all low-wage, low-skill positions in Japan are filled by Japanese people almost exclusively.
Why has Japan not chosen to have a liberal immigration policy like the UK? Superficially, both countries seem similar. Densely populated island nations, constitutional monarchy, both industrialised at similar times, yet the two nations have vastly different approaches to immigration.
What is it about the social and political climate of Japan that has resulted in minimal immigration?
Also, I don't see how anyone can accuse this post of being racist while at the same time supporting the Japanese immigration policy.