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boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Japan records steepest population decline while number of foreign residents hits new high

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Japan records steepest population decline while number of foreign residents hits new high

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boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Japan’s total population was 125.41 million, down just over half a million people from a year earlier
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      Ho boy, wait until you find out about how xenophobic Japan is.

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          Sure.

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      Speaking very broadly here, I define conservatism as needing an out of power group to shame/ostracize. Looking at Japan, 98% of the population is ethnically Japanese. 2% is immigrants. Hell I bet most of the people reading this already know the Japanese word for outsider without me even having to say it. It’s a lock that Japanese conservatives are every bit as shitty as English or American conservatives.

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        I don’t. What is the word?

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          Gaijin. I think this knowledge was much more common on the internet a long time ago tbh.

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          The most common one is “Gaijin” which is the impolite word for foreigner.

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        Japanese ultranationalists love a good political assassination

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          Have for a long time now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Blood_Incident

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      That happened a long long time ago in the UK, in like 40 AD or so.

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        Nah, like most instances, it’s a smaller ruling class that imposes it’s culture over the local populations who they’ve invaded; More conversion than replacement.

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      Japans immigration is actually surprisingly strict no ? I feel as the population ages more and more those laws will get a little more lax.

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      I mean, that’s literally what’s happening? I’m not sure what you mean there.

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        I’m not sure how 2% of the population being immigrants is replacing the native population.

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          2% today, but if the trend continues though

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            you know it’s gonna die anyways since the population growth rate is declining in an all time low right?

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              That’s a problem that came be fixed. But to those who like Japan and Japanese culture, immigration is not something that can be undone.

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          But if you like Japan as it is, that’s a valid concern. It’s not immigrants magically forget where they come from.

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