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SHUUKAN DIAMONDO ON "IMMIGRATION ARCHIPELAGO JAPAN"
BRIEF:
What follows are fifteen pages of a special report in Weekly
Diamond economics magazine, concerning the importance of Immigration to
Japan, which ran on June 5, 2004. Highlights:
Cover: "Even with the Toyota
Production style, it won't work without foreigners. By 2050,
Japan will need more than 33,500,000 immigrants!! Toyota's castle
town overflowing with Nikkei Brazilians. An explosion of Chinese
women, working 22 hour days... the dark side of foreign labor".
Page 32: "If SARS [pneumonia] spreads, factories 'dependent on Chinese' in Shikoku will close down".
Page 32: "If SARS [pneumonia] spreads, factories 'dependent on Chinese' in Shikoku will close down".
Page 40-41: Keidanren leader Okuda Hiroshi offers "five policies": 1) Create a "Foreigners Agency" (gaikokujin-chou), 2) Create bilateral agreements to receive "simple laborers" (tanjun roudousha),
3) Strengthen Immigration and reform labor oversight, 4) Create policy
for public safety, and environments for foreigner lifestyles (gaikokujin no seikatsu kankyou seibi), 5) Create a "Green Card" system for Japan to encourage brain drains from overseas.
ENDS