TL;DR In reality, foreigners comprise less than 3% of welfare recipients. The misinformation originated from an article that incorrectly compared annual foreign welfare recipients to monthly Japanese recipients.
by SkyInJapan
TL;DR In reality, foreigners comprise less than 3% of welfare recipients. The misinformation originated from an article that incorrectly compared annual foreign welfare recipients to monthly Japanese recipients.
by SkyInJapan
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This will certainly have an effect on the upcoming elections.
It’s wild to me that people can watch the way that places like the UK and the USA are choking themselves to death on manufactured xenophobia and think, “That looks like a good thing for my country to do.”
How can someone even think that could be remotely true? Most people here on a visa can’t even get welfare if they had legit reason for it, they would just be asked to leave.
For 1/3 of welfare households to be foreigners basically 80% of all foreigners would need to be on welfare.
more like 1/3 of 1% which I would even doubt.
I legit saw people commenting “well they might’ve gotten the numbers wrong, but the numbers don’t matter anyway. The kind of things people care about don’t show up in the numbers”
Lost cause already
MEGAQUAKE
Stay away!
Fortunate “editorial error” to be exploited.
From the article:
>>The ratings are on a seven-level scale: “accurate,” “mostly accurate,” “misleading,” “inaccurate,” “unsubstantiated,” “incorrect,” and “false.” There are two additional categories, “rating on hold,” and “ineligible for check.” The information in question was deemed “incorrect.”
Frankly, with the level of BS that has been rolled out pretty, much systematically and increasingly so since last year, what about creating a “pants on fire”-category?
Also:
>>Fact-checking is not intended to defend or criticize specific causes or political parties, but is aimed at verifying information spreading in society and conveying accurate information to readers.
Well, considering that it was mostly political parties (the LDP, Isshin, Sanseito, Hoshuto and the DPP) which have been peddling this BS and **on a repeated basis**, or which should have known better but **still** decided to jump on the bandwagon and started to promise to “do something” about something that they should have known was BS from the start, maybe exposing these parties as being spreaders of BS or as attempting to benefit from this BS should be given consideration. We are, after all, talking about xenophobic scapegoating, aren’t we?
Anyway, BS has been allowed to spread like a disease **for nearly a year**, now a whopping **2 weeks** before the election-deadline has fact-checking finally started. I’m not holding my breath as far as what will be the results of this last-ditch attempt at having public sanity prevail, not mentioning the pathetic attempt at saving face in front of what can only be described as a moral debacle for both the media and political world.
Frankly, the only thing that could (and should) have put Japan to shame was, like in the past, shaming on the world stage by foreign media. The problem being that this “Japan” story probably died out in the cacophony of similar-themed news from around the world (e.g. Trump non-sense, far-right on the increase in Europe, etc, etc, etc).
was at Hello Work waiting for 相談 (lost my job, it sucks) and had to wait 90 minutes. the 18 people in front of me were all Japanese. young, old, man, woman. I was the only foreigner in that room.
I can’t help but notice that all these pro-foreign resident posts have been translated into English from the original Japanese articles.
Despite the people who act in bad faith against us, it is of no surprise that many Japanese have a more balanced view. Something to keep in mind.
looks like it’s happening to you too… the evil ones are coming for a takeover like here
They don’t need welfare. LMAO. Just go by the coastline and there is fresh catch of the day to partake from😊
Damn, what is going on lately!
A sure sign of a government trying to move further right-wing and anti working class is demonization of immigrants and foreigners. They play on people’s xenophobic tendencies, stereotypes and exaggerations of “immigrant crime” to gain the support needed to shift politics rightward across-the-board. Politics that put the desires of the wealthy and corporations above those of the working class majority.
I sincerely hope the Japanese people are aware of this.
Is ICE knocking down the doors in Japan> askin for a friend
Typical rage baiting nonsense. Conservatives used the same tactics in the US. It’s gonna work too. Then they’ll get into office and cut everything for everyone.
Feels very naive and misinformed to believe this. I expect better.
Heh, I’d say that a large portion of foreign residents that are eligible for some form of financial assistance whether local, prefectural or national are likely unaware that it exists and have no idea how to apply even if eligible.