Japan is now looking for immigrants
Japan is now looking for immigrants
With the amount of youth dwindling each year, Japan is looking to increase its immigrate population in order to offset their aging population. The increase raises their acceptable percentage to ten percent of their entire population to be immigrants. This new attempt to mitigate the fact that their entire population will drink by one third within the next fifty years based on the current statistics is fueled by the ruling party panel and its finding will be provided to Prime Minister Yascuo Fukuda within the next few days.
According to the immigration statistics, immigrants make up not even two percent of the Japanese total population as of 2006. Concerns about the increase from 2% of their 128 million population to 10% coming from foreign soil is that Japan may see an increase in crimes with the new residents. The ruling party panel who completed the study and presenting the rule to the prime minister commented, “We think it would be appropriate for Japan to accept immigrants to make up 10 percent of the population over the next 50 years.”
In addition to opening up their borders to more immigrants, the report also suggests opening up for more refugees whom are rarely allowed to enter Japan under the current laws. The country is looking to the future and hoping to attract younger residents that may be able to help care for its ageing population in the years to come. In fact, it has already started to bring in nurses and health care professionals from Indonesia as of this year.
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