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- Government data released ahead of Japan’s “Respect for the Aged Day” showed that the country’s population aged 65 and over had risen to an all-time high of 36.25 million.
- According to Robert Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities, the data fuels concerns about demographic shifts and a labor crunch in the country.
I’ve heard this said about Japan on Lemmy more than once. Is there a source for the sentiment?
It isn’t “sentiment”. Japan is very well-known for being exceptionally unwelcoming to immigration in general, other than for low-skilled resident workers. Here’s a pretty good overview: https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00920/
To be fair, that isn’t unusual for east Asia. China is the same, but their demographic crisis is still two decades away.
From the article itself:
This doesn’t sound low skilled to me. Also, the record high number of foreign workers surely means that they are, in fact, increasing immigration?
Edit: it looks like you changed your article. This is the article that was originally linked, and which I am referring to, to prevent reader confusion: https://archive.li/cefT3
I replaced it with a more detailed source. Perhaps your confusion is stemming from the way you’re conflating foreign workers and immigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Japan
Yet in spite of this, the number of foreign residents in Japan in recent years is very high.
This is only one small piece of the puzzle, but it’s fairly common to have trouble finding a place to rent if you’re a foreigner, specifically because you’re a foreigner.
There’s also restaurants and other shops that won’t even serve foreigners, even if you’ve lived there for years and speak the language