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Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis (www.theguardian.com)

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Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

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[–] Kururin@talk.kururin.tech 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The amount of xenophobia in those countries, they would def have a population collapse. But hey happy earth!

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Japan is totally fine with foreigners ... if you're western. Otherwise you can GTFO.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not exactly true. They're fine with you being their temporarily, even for a few years. Try to raise a family there and that consideration goes away.