Should Japan be “occupied” by Indians?
Just past the holiday, if you pay attention to the spots of the netizens who go to Japan to play, you will find that Japan's convenience shops and restaurants have many faces of Southeast Asia and South Asia service staff.
(Comments from domestic netizens)
One of them has to be mentioned is the number of Indians. Some people complain that if Japan continues to do this, it will become the same as Canada...
(Comments from domestic netizens)
If these can only be said to be the "premium" of the Indian landing in Japan, the Japanese official attitude has been sharply pushed over the premium.
Indian Prime Minister Modi visited Japan more than a month ago. then-Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba personally received him. The two sides reached many consensuses, one of which was to strengthen "talent exchanges" between Japan and India.
How to communicate specifically... Japan said it would introduce about 50,000 talents in IT, nursing and other fields from India in the next five years, and would invest huge private investment in India in the next 10 years.
The detailed documents released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan later mentioned that the future goal is that the number of talents exchanged between the two countries reaches more than 500,000, which is indeed quite large.
Netizens complained that this KPI was easy. According to the "occupation speed" of Indians dragging their families and their children, it will take less than ten years to reach the target of 500,000 Indians rushing into Japan.
(AI picture from Japanese netizens: Indians are crawling all over the Shinkansen)
There is nothing wrong with Japanese netizens' spit. After all, there are lessons learned from Canada's "occupation" by Indians. According to the statistics of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, among all immigration statistics, the number of Indian immigrants ranks first, four times that of the second. The number of Indian immigrants has more than tripled in ten years.
The most exaggerating thing is that the Indians even organized parades, asking the whites to roll back to Europe, who are the masters of Canada?
It is hard to imagine that this would happen in Japan, but according to the current Japanese open-minded attitude to Indian talents, I don't know what's going to happen.
At present, some Japanese people have organized demonstrations to oppose all forms of immigration policies, saying that this is not racial discrimination, but simply to protect Japanese society.
(National demonstration against immigration policy)
Opposition activities on the Internet are also vigorous. News that Indian students recently climbed into dormitories and assaulted female classmates in Japan was frantically forwarded by netizens. Many people agreed with the statement that India is a "big country of aggression" and that introducing a large number of Indians would threaten the safety of Japanese women.
Some AI images are also spread everywhere, and this visual impact is still strong.
Japanese netizens began to look for all kinds of evidence to prove that Indians should not be introduced, such as "Indians will steal passengers' mobile phones at the moment the carriage door is closed":
"The ratio of men to women in India is seriously imbalanced, and the number of men exceeds 45 million women, resulting in abnormal hunger and thirst, which is the culprit of women's violation":
“India is dirty and smelly, the air pollutes the noise, the sewage is disgusting, it is a country like hell.”
"Indians stink and wear all kinds of perfumes. The body odor and fragrance mix together directly cause the smell to dry up. It is impossible to get along with the Japanese":
“India is everywhere with cattle’s garbage, has visited 50 countries, and India has the worst health conditions.”
In any case, how scary to say, all sorts of insulting India posts have spread crazy among Japanese netizens.
At this time, Chinese netizens are still joking: let the cleanest Japanese live with the cleanest Indians, think it’s exciting.
Last month, North Qingzhou announced a friendly relationship with the Indian state of Trengen, and the Japanese saw the "500,000 Indians Plan" to be piloted in advance, giving the local government enough courage.
Finally, it was the Kitakyushu Councilman who issued a message explaining that the project our city and India cooperated with is environmental protection, is very small in scale, and has nothing to do with the 500,000 plan at the national level... This barely calmed the public anger.
Some of the previous positive cases have now also been removed. Hokkaido River Town was once considered a successful case for the introduction of young people in India because of the loss of labor.
Local Indians have been introduced since a decade ago, with 284 people already in 2022, accounting for 2% of the local population.
For a town with a permanent population of only 16000, the growth rate of Indians is indeed alarming...
Local entrepreneurs also interviewed on TV that young people in India work hard here and get along well with the locals.
As a result, as soon as the recent "500,000 Indian Talent Policy" came out, Urakawa-cho instantly went from a "successful case" of getting along well to a spurned target...
(Indian brother: I always wanted to live in浦河町)
Under this wave, even some domestic enterprises with Japan have become objects of resistance.
Someone found out that the head of the Japanese company "Kanita Fruit Making" that makes snacks and snacks had become Indian, saying that they would never buy anything from this company again in their life.
Not just immigrants, but some netizens are even more confused about the Japanese government's need to fund India's civilians:
"The shortage of talents is not a big deal. The shortage of talents means that there is demand, which means that Japanese wages will rise as a whole.
But for now, Japanese wages will not rise because cheap foreign labor will be introduced before wages rise.”
“Are nurses also classified as highly skilled people, and it’s better to introduce Indians than to raise wages for nurses in Japan.”
“It is better to invest in the introduction of talent than to invest in Japan to cultivate Japanese talent.”
However, from the perspective of the Japanese government, it is a helpless move to let Southeast Asian and South Asian laborers enter Japan.
Japan has been facing the dual dilemma of declining birthrate and aging. Relevant statistics mention that in 2030, Japan's labor gap will be as high as 6 million people.
In addition, Japan has serious talent shortages in many fields such as IT, medical care, semiconductors, nursing, and manufacturing.
Especially in the nursing field, the shortage of nursing staff is exacerbated by aging. If the labor force is insufficient, a large number of elderly people will not be cared for.
Therefore, during this meeting with India, the Japanese government asked India for some IT and nursing talents, hoping that these Indians could work hard after entering Japan.
But if there are too many Indians to go, and there is no way to check the information, or even a false suspicion, the outcome can be imagined ... Japanese society will have to face the growing problem of immigration.
Let's just say that a society like Japan, where there are too many old people and young people have low fertility willingness, can't find a good solution anyway...