Japan TURNS ON Foreigners?! Jake Adelstein on Takaichi’s Immigration Policies | Japan Station 225

On this episode of Japan Station, Jake Adelstein joins us to discuss immigration policy in Japan and why the Takaichi government has decided to make it more difficult for foreigners to get permanent residency.

👉Topics Discussed

• Why you (probably) will never get permanent residence in Japan
• The ill-defined changes to requirements for permanent residency in Japan
• Why the changes to permanent residency requirements in Japan are so discouraging to foreign residents of Japan
• Why Japan needs workers from other countries
• The problem with retroactively changing requirements for permanent residency in Japan
• The problem with the 30 years of payments to the national pension system requirement
• The influence of the Sanseitō
• And much more
• Why the yen is so weak
• How most people in Japan will never be full-fledged company employees (seishain)
• How Japan hates and needs “overtourism”
• How Japan is becoming less and less alluring as a place to live
• How Japan has failed to innovate and take the lead in new industries
• The problematic way Japan didn’t allow foreign residents to reenter Japan during the COVID pandemic
• And much more

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Read Jake Adelstein’s article

• Welcome to Japanistan, where the foreign residents who buried their lives here aren’t welcome anymore. It’s not a kind policy–and not even a wise one: https://tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/takaichi-just-told-the-foreign-residents

For more articles by Jake Adelstein, check out the Tokyo Paladin Substack.

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