Local Japanese leaders call for more foreign immigrant workers
(www.sankakucomplex.com)
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as long as they are judicious, it will be okay. don't let in anyone with a criminal record, only let people in who have skills and a job lined up, deport people who have been jobless for a certain amount of time, deport people when they break the law, and require green card holders be able to speak Japanese enough to be able to hold a conversation.
Japan is an island, so it has naturally secure borders. this can be done.
Japan is such a nice country because it is a homogeneous country, with one ethnicity and one culture. Even if you bring in people who are worthy, let alone if the bar is so low as 'not a criminal', you are going to lose that.
Europe tried this (I am an immigrant myself), and we've had no end of trouble because of it, and we're having to spend vast sums on immigrant criminality (mostly second and third generation, so "not a criminal" does not work there) and benefits - which if spent on the domestic birth rate, could actually have done a great amount of good - if with an 18 year delay.
It's not worth it.
BUT MUH GDP!!