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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by turkey99 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:26PM (#49859726)
For Japan, shrinking population will mean an aging population with no one to care for them.
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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by duhher4 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @06:24PM (#49861131)
A people can recover from that, though. That's not an existential threat. They may be in for hard times, but they will survive.

Can the same be said of all the populations importing millions of foreigners to prop up "muh GDP"?

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by Aeolun on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:12PM (#49861491)
> A people can recover from that, though

Absolutely. They’ll just go through a period of a bunch of social workers discovering a new corpse every three days. Whole towns dying because there is nobody to maintain the public services. The people will get exactly what they were asking for, and they’ll die for it.

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by PorciiVorbesc on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:44PM (#49862117)
>and they’ll die for it

I've yet to meet people immune from the inevitability of death, via the immigration policies of their country.

What exactly was your argument here? Because I'm not seeing the downside in what you wrote.

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by kurthr on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:02PM (#49862253)
Your response reminds me of The Onion:

https://theonion.com/15-000-brown-people-dead-somewhere-1819...

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by mikem170 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:14PM (#49861504)
A few generations ago they were enslaving people [0]. This is what racism can lead to. Maintaining our heritage, our way of life, some would say.

Hopefully their population decline doesn't hit them too hard. But that, and their lack natural of resources, could lead to bad things. Fascists and their ilk thrive in such situations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Japan#World_War_II

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by rayiner on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:53PM (#49862179)
Not if we have robots and AI.
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