As much as I love Japanese culture, and even studying Japanese language at the moment. I would not want to work in Japan at all.

"no thanks" - Japan

To those who are complaining about Japan losing their national identity- Just import all the weebs there, they love Japan far more than their own country, anyways.

their work culture is terrible...fix that and they would be fine...there should be law to hinder workaholic behavior

honestly the answer isn't always to pull people from other places, it's to fix the existing CULTURE and work norms

I don't believe that accepting low skilled workers is a good idea in the long run, as the professor mentioned. That said, as a Japanese, I don't believe that high skilled foreign workers (doctors, scientists, etc) are willing to work in Japan either. Working for a Japanese company in Japan would be too tough for most people. I'd rather choose any other developed nation (or try to be self-employed).

OMG, can't one media outlet realized that Japan's population won't shrink forever. Eventually, the number will bottom out, plateau and rise again.

I am Japanese and own a company relating to construction in Japan. I want to write a couple of things not mentioned. 1. It costs money to employ foreign workers. The human resource agency typically charges employers 10-15,000 USD per foreign worker That includes, travel costs, visa clearance, finding suitable candidates and so on. - That is a part of the reasons why some workers experience overwork and exploitation. Employers already pay tons of money upfront. 2. Those "low-skilled" works are not so low-skilled anymore. In order to properly work in construction sites, you need to have a few qualifications. You need to pass some tests in Japanese for skills and safety. (The guy in a video bringing down scaffolding to the ground and guys on a red elevator thingy, they all have qualifications.) Without qualifications, you will be considered unsafe and unskilled to work. You will be regarded as a second-class worker who has no clue about safety standards. Upon entering a site, you will be asked to write an "Entry sheet for new workers" in Japanese, that would be tricky too. - It's not fully a matter of being a Japanese or not. It's partially a matter of credentials too.

I think that Japan will modernise manufacturing process by building robots doing those kind of manual jobs

Correction: "skilled immigrants" not just any.

Don't become like Germany, Japan is great like it is.

People may not like to immigrate to Japan because of their high work expectations and strict work culture. Plus language is also a barrier Japanese is one of the toughest language to learn.

Shocking how most people have no idea about discrimantion towards non japanese who live and work there

A shrinking population can alway's recover, A replaced one is lost forever

Noooooo......Japan, please do not accept immigrants. You guys must preserve your culture.

I hope japan does not turn into londondistan.

So, france, germany, italy, the uk, greece, usa, sweden, canada, turkey are ruined and now japan? Niiice

I grew up over there, to be more precisely in Achi-ken. Being a Brazilian immigrant (with Japanese ancestry), I noticed how "not welcome" immigrants are over there :/

When you send a chinese journalist to report on Japan, you get this. Selectively interviewing a half dozen Chinese labor workers because those are the only ones that she can communicate with (excluding the Indonesians, Bangladeshis, Indians, Filipinos...), and thus presenting only the Chinese point of view, maybe 1/10th of the full picture here. = sloppy journalism

I think japan should just stick to automation over mass migration, it’s probably not a good idea to import people who will end up unemployed in a few years

This actually makes sense. You vet these immigrants properly, employ them for a short period of time but dont allow entry of their families with them. this can work out for japan until their fertility rate gets to normal. if they learn from the mistakes of other countries.

QUICK! IMPORT 10 MILLION SOMALIANS!

They can replace Japan's numbers but not their quality which is why it's not the answer

...and have Japan go through the same problems Europe is facing? Ghettoisation, identity politics, security threats?

When I was in university, I wanted to be an English teacher in Japan. But shortly after watching a documentary about their discrimination against foreigners, I immediately changed my mind. Sorry, Japan. A lot of people want to help you, but you make it so hard.

I'm Black, but what makes a country beautiful?... It's the people that built it. Stop trying to force everything to look like the rainbow. The rainbow is not always the most beautiful thing around.

Why not incentivise baby production? Like family with 3 or more kids will get free housing etc

Imagine in the future a billion or so weeaboos realize this and they all immigrant to japan and suddenly get citizenship and then suddenly japan has a population boom and almost every person speaks in broke japanese

Populations grow and decline, it's just a cycle. Economy can collapse and be rebuilt. Those are just small issues that can be fixed within decades, which is a very short time for a country. Mass immigration however is just a quick fix and does more harm than good.

I don't like Japanese government but I have no bad blood with Japanese people, and I agree that mass immigration and multiculturalism never work, not even with seemly "friendly" culture. You have to preserve your culture at all cost, it can not be done without keeping your blood pure. Good luck to you. I'd rather see Japan being Japan.

so goodbye to Anime

people are mad realizing you need people who will do hard low paying labor

When I read 'Quartz' my mind immediately went to 'Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.'

Look at Europe and how that worked out...

NO. keep you borders closed Japan.

if you want to start with immigration japan do it properly, with your own rules and with small quantities per year. immigration is good but dont lost control

I just hope Japan doesn’t turn into Qatar, UAE and treat their foreign workers really badly......also the marriage rate is linked to the birth rate in east asian countries as people rarely have children outside of marriage so if marriage rate decreases then birth rate will also decrease

ITT: non-Japanese people complaining about Japan’s policies. Lmao.

I got a lot of offer from Japan in IT industry but tbh i would rather work in some southeast Asia countries, i don't want to die out of overwork

Yes, we love Japan in incognito mode

Foreigners are the last thing Japan needs.

You don't need immigrants. You just need to incentivise people to have children. That's it. Its perfectly fine if there are more jobs than people. That is a good way to improve work life balance, raise wages, and increase workplace conditions. Immigration lowers wages, powers work life balance, and lowers work place conditions.

Despite me being a foreigner, I do object against immigration. The country's population would increase, yes. But the culture would also suffer. I prefer the population to decrease rather than the culture to go extinct in a few decades. *_Who else agrees?_*

People used to say America is so racist then i visited japan , now i know why US is no1

Robots are the answer to this work problem, not 30 million foreigners

this is what happen when workers right is almost non-existent causing the worker to suffer stress, depression. suicidal and despair while the government expect them to function perfectly like robot without rest, asking to marry so and so without addressing the source of the problem "TIME". how do the people raise a family when they coming home at 9 to 10 pm and goes to work at 6 to 7 am, they are literally working themselves to death, does the government think the people does not have feeling.

They have to be very careful about this. I'm an immigrant myself so I see both sides. I do not want to see Japan become another France or England.

Japanese never be immigrant country, Look at their history and geography they are most of the time isolate from another civilization. Before western contact they only get culture from Chinese dynasty. Their thousand year of isolation cannot be change with some hundred years of western modernization.

We have never heard terrorist attack happen in japan it's because they did nt let immigrant in so let them live happily vice please leave them alone

No, no migrants.

Japan following Germany steps. We're in trouble again.

Cultural integration is essential to Japan and Japanese culture. Peace occurs when a group has a common mindset and work in harmony. What Japan is experiencing is a shortage of workers that can pay into the retirement system. One of the solution to this is using contracted foreign workers. Most foreign workers prefer to return to their homelands after their work tenures. Immigration alone is not the sole solution.

Japan’s future depends on advanced robots

Japan is an extremely safe and stable country. Yes you may have small temporary economic gain from a flood of young people. If you want violence, linguistic issues, and people calling you racist every day, bring in third world immigrants. Look at what is happening to Europe after the migrant crisis and consider if you want that to happen to your country in exchange for a few Yen.

wait wait wait. the guy at 6:39 is 65?

Japan:No, thanks…because we don't want to be like Europe…

The host of this episode looks like an anime character lol

I think Japanese rather die out on their own than letting foreign DNA mixed with Yamato gene . I don't even like Japanese but I agree and respect their decision on this one.

Not everywhere needs to end up like the U.K. and US

Thank You Domo Arigatoshimatsu どうもありがとうございました Dōmo arigatōgozaimashita

I'll go to Japan to help solve this problem

With 10X the population density of the USA ... Japan needs more people??

I assume why working is hard in japan is because of multiple subcontracting(多重下請け).

Your contents are addictive. Excellent journalism, very informative and engaging.

Pro tip : Don't allow unskilled workers into the country

don't go to japan...for work but go for fun...

Some of these workers have already left Japan, I guarantee you. Once their contract expires rarely any japanese company retain them. They just hire new ones while paying the ultimate lowest salary they can get away with.

NO!!!!!!! DON'T DO IT!!!!!!

No please make more baby Japan is a great nation long live the empire of the rising sun.

"Come and work here, but don't stay." As it should be. They are WORKERS, like, for a JOB, not IMMIGRANTS!

They should open their door anyway, there's a lot of people who willing to migrate to Japan, I'm one of them. But it is so hard to find a job there. Plus, is so damn expensive to settle in Japan in the first month

OH WELL.... For decades they kept out desirables and now they're forced to accept undesirables.

how come robots and AI can be substitutes for young generations? people can be so out of touch with reality. as if they lived in movies.

NO ITS NOT THE ANSWER . GO HOMU

Replacement migration does nothing to solve this issue, if you import foreign workers, you need more foreign workers. Its like adding lanes to a highway to fix traffic. Clearly Japan has benefitted from being homogenous, Europe has NOT benefitted from open borders and multiculturalism, as they still have labor shortages but now have unfixable social problems on top of the same demographic issues. Also, when does it end? Are you supposed to just keep importing people until your native population is less than 50 percent of the only homeland they will ever have? Maybe work to fix the main issue first, people dont feel like having kids in financially feasable, how would bringing in more labor to lower wages help that issue? Its maddening that so many people in the media push mass immigration as if it has any long term benefit.

No. That is not how you fix it.

I have a Japanese wife, and my father in law will never think immigrants will be the answer to Japan lack of labor problem. Japan trusts machine not people.

Careful, you said the "I" word That might trigger some people

In India it's the straight opposite problem.

Improve parental leave laws, learn from Scandinavia and you’ll see a baby boom

I suppose Japan could accept a few immigrants from Korea, and maybe even a few from China. I mean, yes, I am aware that the Japanese tend to look down on the Chinese. But the two countries do share some cultural similarities - for instance, the cultures of both countries value hard work. As for Korea, of course, although Korea doesn't share a common language with Japan, the two languages are very close - it is easy for Koreans to learn Japanese. I also came across a video on etiquette in Korea once, and noticed that a lot of the rules they mentioned (e.g. Don't blow your nose in public) also applied to Japan.

I just love Japanese food but not there work culture...immaculate chill person so Kaizen is not my thang

Very informative video! Keep going!

Wealthy first world countries with dwindling populations that are increasingly constituted by a majority of older people should embrace immigrants and make it a priority to educate and integrate them into their culture. Eventually, the physical appearance of the common citizen may change but this way the cultures, values and traditions are preserved by and for future generations.

Japan culture problem is its population problem. let people make a earning at 35-40 hours instead of 60-70 hours, you'll have more people making babies. most people prefer to immigrate to places where they can make good money, not slavery money.

Japan is like dubai in terms of working attitude towards foreigners.

Did people just assume that depopulation is bad for Japan? Maybe it's the Japan wants and needs. Respect their choice.

2:47 A lot of Mexicans immigrate to the U.S. to do agricultural work and meny other low skilled jobs, why not allow some of them in Japan to do the same work in Japan. Also, they need to allow immigrants to stay.

Great story quartz! I love Japan such a beautiful country

i'm here for the video and the salt.

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Beside from the immigrants, is it possible for foreigners to create/open a business in Japan ? I heard that Japan is very open minded for new investors, entrepreneur etc... Cause of the lack of enterprise in Japan. Japanese are more to become salarymen than to make their own business. I would love you to explore this subject. Or anyone reading my comment, please comment, and let me know about it. I'v been thinking about it for years. Thanks.

Populations accelerate and decline. This is natural. It means that instead of workers competing for jobs, jobs will compete for workers. Immigration is never necessary, even for an aging population. If it is chosen, the immigrants MUST be from compatible cultures. For Japan this would mean South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and maybe China. Not the middle east. Not Mexico. Not Africa. Not Jewish double citizens. You can keep your multicultural and multiracial propaganda to yourself.

lies, sharing my garden and fishing pond with 5000 immigrants is not good for me and my old parents.

TITP is modern day slavery, they work extra long hours doing jobs that japanese people refuse to do, on top of that they get massive reduction in their pay check for rent expenses without a choice, for example the company will rent a place for 40,000 yen, put 3 or 4 people into one small room and charge them 25,000 yen each as rent, so the company is making money off of these poor TITP kids. in addition, the agents in China and japan charge them a heavy fee around $6000 USD to come to japan, these fees include, visa application, language school and plane ticket. BUT! these middle man also charge the employee the same fees, language school fees, plane ticket and admin fees. basically every step of the TITP program is a scam!

Don’t do it japan!

Do NOT read the comments! Save yourselves!

A decreasing population is not a problem! We have enough people.

Great report. Well done.

the best immigration policy is women and children. women to marry locals and childrens (with their family of course) so they can learn from a young age to be part of the society.