Survey Finds 59% of Japanese Opposed to Actively Accepting Foreign Workers

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1. So, passively it is? With some backdoor policies and not admitting that those foreigners are workers, but some random interns, trainees and other bs?

2. It says a little over 2000 of 3000 people contacted responded to the survey. So 59% of those people. Not a huge chunk of the population or anything.

3. In my previous workplace we “actively” and aggressively were looking for Japanese workers, but “passively” accepted foreigners because most of the Japanese ones didn’t have the necessary skills, while most of the foreigners who applied had them.

4. Ask businesses, they need labor.

5. Unsurprising result given the economic climate. That said unless you can provide Japanese workers willing to accept the entry level salaries for such roles as hotel housekeeping, delivery driver etc – foreigners are here to stay.

   Or we can increase wages and charge customers more.

6. 59% of the whole population or just a really small margin of racists and xenophobic people that have too much time on their hands.

7. Also. Who are they asking. Are they just calling random homes and asking the person who picks up the phone?

8. Unlike apparently a lot of people in the replies, I find this plausible. Japanese political polling often produces results of baffling absurdity, floating whatever direction the latest breeze is blowing. The news is full of politicians seeking attention by scapegoating the non-Japanese community, so of course the polls will reflect that.

   Hopefully the Japanese public will come to their senses faster than the American public and realize that immigrants are a valuable part of the Japanese community and and economy before some attention-seeking dipstick accuses us of stealing and eating pets.

9. This is just a marketing problem. I’m sure if they switched the script from “accepting foreign workers” to “exploiting foreigners for profit” people would be much more accepting

10. A lot of denial in these replies.

11. Can we define ‘actively’? I think many people assume it means decreasing posts for Japanese people to make more room for foreigners, which I don’t think is what it means.

12. In my company, none of the Japanese have the skills necessary to do their job. Quite literally none of them. More often than not, our small team of foreigners spend a lot of time training them on how to use microsoft tools, write and organise emails, develop strategies for their clients and coach them on the correct ways to plan a project (their job, the Japanese, is project management). It didn’t stop some of them, in a workplace evaluation,from demanding the company only hire Japanese though.

13. They only want foreign workers whom they can exploit as cheap labor.

14. LOL

    “The survey was conducted from Sept. 24, near the end of the Ishiba Cabinet, to Oct. 31, after the formation of the Takaichi Cabinet. It targeted 3,000 voters nationwide, with 2,004 responding, a response rate of 67%”

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