Comments by "Yo2" (@yo2trader539) on "How Japanese Elders Feel About Foreigners Living In Japan" video.

  1. Japan has always been selective. Immigration rules were designed to discourage people who couldn't survive in Japan (or people who we didn't want). For instance, a foreign/international student who graduated from a Japanese university or grad school will almost automatically receive a 5-year work visa, because they are fluent in language/culture, educated, and most likely to succeed. Conversely, Japanese immigration will only issue 1 year visas (or sometimes less) to those who have limited language fluency or technical skills. Japan's worst fear is exactly Europe, where we can see ethnic ghettos, Islamic extremists, gangs, or homeless migrants living off of handouts. Limited language and technical skill, usually results in limited probability to succeed. The concept of new visa schemes such as J-FIND and J-SKIP are based on this belief that we need to attract more educated or highly-skilled professionals. In reality, we've experienced the increase in crime and violence for decades (which is why Ministry of Justice, Immigration, and Police are always very conservative when it comes to visa restrictions). It was mostly crimes by Koreans in the 20th century, particularly after WWII and Korean War period. They were later usurped by Chinese who started coming around the 1980s and 1990s. Iranians came too but they were in heroin business so most of them were asked to leave. Nikkei-Brazilians, Nikkei-Peruvians were always given special preference over visa allotments because of their Japanese ancestry. Currently, Chinese and Vietnamese make up 60% of all crimes committed by foreign-nationals in Japan. The rest are mostly Koreans, Brazilians, and Filipino. Nowadays, a lot of attention is on the ethnic Kurds in Saitama. They're only 2,000 Kurdish asylum-seekers in Japan, yet they create so much chaos and havoc, locals desperately want them deported. Around the same number of Ukrainian refugees are currently in Japan, yet they cause absolutely no problem and are well liked. I don't know how to explain the stark contrast in their respective behaviors. But I do suspect that change in Refugee Law was targeted for easier deportation of declined applicants.
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