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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by famahar on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:22PM (#49861965)
A politician can spin it that way sure, despite foreigners owning 0.12 percent of property and most foreigner jobs (at least the ones my friends have) requiring fluent English. It's not a threat to Japanese people, but with the right populist figure, anything can sound like a threat. What I find so sad about this is the lack of empathy for people that worked hard to build a life here, paid their taxes, and followed the law. They did nothing wrong, but are the targets of a population primed to take their economic woes and anger out on people simply living their life peacefully.
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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by zergrush on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:02PM (#49862249)
Shitty situation I'm sure but no matter how you spin it or complain its shouting into the void. Whether there was real plus or minus ultimately as you pointed out make up a very microscopic fraction of Japanese economy and priority from the Japanese point of view, who's voice almost always override those of foreigners.

It would be nice for everybody to be happy but its clear Japanese who are the rightful owners of the land are not, and thus they have a right to vote and through consensus decide on what they perceive to be best for their national interests.

Maybe it's good for them maybe it's not but it won't be heard like all the comments here including mine or visible to real Japanese people living in Japan.

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by polotics on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:19AM (#49863861)
The callous extreme rudeness of purging hard-working people out just because their work doesn't pay a higher wage than the average is senseless anti-human pretentious bullshit.

Maybe that's how the AI apocalypse happens: AI generated memes and AI enhanced preferences for `clean` robot workers and purified isolation until the last human is informed she has to leave because some law requires it.

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by PorciiVorbesc on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:28PM (#49862012)
>They did nothing wrong, but are the targets of a population primed to take their economic woes and anger out on people simply living their life peacefully.

If you check out history books, you'll be surprised(or not) by how often that happens.

>What I find so sad about this is the lack of empathy for people that worked hard to build a life here, paid their taxes, and followed the law.

Economic hardships and scarcity will turn everyone into animals. Every society, even the most kind, peaceful and orderly is only 3 missing meals away from killing each other for the last piece of bread. Except before killing each other, they'll first kill foreigners. Story as old as time.

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by haizhung on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:45AM (#49867078)
No it will not, propaganda and scapegoating will.

This is thrown around as some sort of truism that humans become animals at the smallest inconvenience; but there is simply no evidence for it. On the contrary, there is loads of evidence that humans work together and support each other especially well through hardship.

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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by throwaway2037 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:47AM (#49864022) 

    > most foreigner jobs (at least the ones my friends have) requiring fluent English
Most foreigners that work in Japan are working low(er) skill jobs, like a supermarket, convenience store, restaurant, cleaning, factory, construction, elderly care, or farm. Literally, there are millions of them on the technical intern programme. None of those jobs require fluent English, intead they require basic Japanese.
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Re:Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing fut... by famahar on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:09AM (#49866793)
You're right. I was primarily thinking of the Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services Visa category. It's another common visa category.
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