Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home (NYT article)

[JerseyBoy]

This is an interesting and bizarre story on Japan's convoluted immigration policy. This policy tells you:

1. The Japanese government has no confidence in Japan's economic recovery.
2. The Japanese government has no idea how to tackle the potential labor shortage in a few decades as the aging population would crush the country.
3. There is no immigration policy in Japan at all.
4. Japan will not be a good country for the potential immigrants (except for the short term job opportunities which help them send the remittances back to their home countries)

Feel free to add your comments and thoughts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigrant.html?ref=business

[nice gaijin]

Wow. Agreed on all points. Japan's government is always looking for new ways to amaze us with just how little it understands its own problems.

[pipokun]

6. NYT will definitely blame Japan for a similar oath ceremony, national anthem/flag etc., if Japan would do the same like in the US
7. You could be a NYT reader after living in Japan
8. Original NYT readers, not a mutant in the above, would be surprised to know that the government gives subsidies to private schools, not only Brazilian schools, but also North Korean schools.

About the contention 2., your favorite subject, the aging population, they are loud everywhere in the US, Europe, and Asia even in China, the red army generation.
If I remember correctly, some countries in Europe have already come to see Japan for more practical solutions of the aging, but healthy and workaholic society somewhere Nagano.

[JerseyBoy]

If I remember correctly, some countries in Europe have already come to see Japan for more practical solutions of the aging, but healthy and workaholic society somewhere Nagano.
Generally speaking, workers/laborers over their 60s do not earn enough money to maintain the quality of living they expect. You would be amazed how little old workers get paid after they reach 60 in Japan. Sometimes it is practically impossible for older workers to be workaholic because nature plays its hands on their mental sharpness and physical fitness.

[Glenski]

3. There is no immigration policy in Japan at all.
Huh? (that's enough to write for the 15-character minimum, aside from "what's this post doing in the Culture Shock forum?")

http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/IB/ib-01.html

[caster51]

Generally speaking, workers/laborers over their 60s do not earn enough money to maintain the quality of living they expect. You would be amazed how little old workers get paid after they reach 60 in Japan. Sometimes it is practically impossible for older workers to be workaholic because nature plays its hands on their mental sharpness and physical fitness.


I think you should get a ticket that is paid by government

time to go home, right