Japan paying immigrants to go home and never come back (citizens, America)

[DontH8Me]

Japan-Pays-Foreign-Workers-to-Go-Home: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/106964/Japan-Pays-Foreign-Workers-to-Go-Home - broken link)

Japan’s offer, extended to hundreds of thousands of blue-collar Latin American immigrants, is part of a new drive to encourage them to leave this recession-racked country. So far, at least 100 workers and their families have agreed to leave, Japanese officials said.

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But Mr. Kawasaki said the economic slump was a good opportunity to overhaul Japan’s immigration policy as a whole.

“We should stop letting unskilled laborers into Japan. We should make sure that even the three-K jobs are paid well, and that they are filled by Japanese,” he said. “I do not think that Japan should ever become a multiethnic society.”

He said the United States had been “a failure on the immigration front,” and cited extreme income inequalities between rich Americans and poor immigrants.

[malamute]

So is La Raza planning bit May 1 protests and marches in Japan?

[JoeMama2009]

La Raza is anti-American, and it would not surprise me is they were anti-Japanese.

[texdav]

I( bet he didn't point out teh income difference between what those same people make here and what they did in thier native countries or how many went on to become very rich. Then he also needs to point out that even executive in Japan live lives very much like lower middle class citzens here but might not even ever be able to afford a home. The top executive make a mint there tho.He also fails to say how backwards his country is towards women in the work place even with very good degrees. Or how once a worker quites a job with a company they can be blackball for disloyality at other jobs.Basically ;he hasn't a clue.

[milward]

These Latin American immigrants are mostly Japanese-Brazilians and Japanese-Peruvian not mixed.

Japan indeed is the most xenophobic country in the World, "gaijin" not allowed. Sad.

[davidt1]

I wish the sleazy, corrupt politicians in Washington have the same courage to stand up for Americans.

[ArizonaBear]

Originally Posted by milward

These Latin American immigrants are mostly Japanese-Brazilians and Japanese-Peruvian not mixed.

Japan indeed is the most xenophobic country in the World, "gaijin" not allowed. Sad.

Frankly; I wonder if the prejudice is directed more against 'Japanese' Hispanics. Why I say that is in many cases Americans of even 1/2 'Japanese' lineage tend to be more accepted by Japan as potential citizens.

The children of a former (White) US Army deserter to N Korea (Jenkins was his name, no link handy) were accepted as 'Japanese', not 'gaijin' by the Japanese people since their Japanese mother had been kidnapped by N Korea years prior.

[DDevil]

I cant believe that a country can be so short sighted considering how the global economy works nowadays

[milward]

Originally Posted by ArizonaBear

Frankly; I wonder if the prejudice is directed more against 'Japanese' Hispanics. Why I say that is in many cases Americans of even 1/2 'Japanese' lineage tend to be more accepted by Japan as potential citizens.

The children of a former (White) US Army deserter to N Korea (Jenkins was his name, no link handy) were accepted as 'Japanese', not 'gaijin' by the Japanese people since their Japanese mother had been kidnapped by N Korea years prior.

Exactly, I'm white(british) and my fiance is Japanese-Brazilian (her parents are from Kyoto). She doesn't like Japan because of that, and some others Japanese-Brazilians do prefer to be Called brazilian than JAPANESE-brazilian.

In my first trip to japan, one women called me gaijin at a market lol...

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Hmm...so that's what it's like in countries where legislators are not consummately bought off by corporations. Makes me want to write my own "I Have a Dream" speech.