86% Local Government Leaders: 'We Need Gaijin or We'll Go Extinct!'
Local government leaders across Japan recently partook in a survey on population decline, on which 86% responded that there is a need to promote the acceptance of gaijin for human resources due to serious labor shortages in agriculture, forestry, and fishe...
No, but there is the very real risk that when we make first contact with another sentient species, we're stuck here grubbing in the dirt with stone-age tech, unable to harvest surface iron or coal to bootstrap heavy industry a second time.