Hatoyama wants to make it easier for foreigners to live in Japan

I’ve been living in Japan for about 20 years. I think the Japanese government has treated be very fairly. They’ve even made many improvements in being able to get things like 3 year multiple reentry permits. Hiring English speaking staff and training them to be polite and courteous. I haven’t had any great trouble at the airports entering or departing.

My own home country of the U.S. recently treats us like cattle going through the airport security checks.

There is always room for improvement but one of the things that I like about Japan is that not just everyone from any country can easily arrive and just start residing here. My native California culture has been destroyed by the influx of millions upon millions of Mexican’s that have taken over the state and have returned it basically back to another state of Mexico. I have nothing against Mexicans or their culture but if I wanted to live in Mexico I’d move to Mexico. There are just too many of them in California.

I hope Hatoyama doesn’t lighted up too much and start letting millions upon millions of foreigners easily arrive and reside in Japan. If this happens it will be the end of Japanese culture and present society as we know it. That would be a great loss. All immigration should only be allowed in an amount that can be assimilated and indoctrinated with present Japanese basic principals and common ideology. Who knows, maybe it’s already too late.

As for a person that has dual citizenship and has a child, it would be better if Japan would allow dual citizenship. Why should the child be loyal to a specific country, that just boggles my mind. This law needs to be ratified!

“My native California culture”

could be the title of the new Kevin Smith movie..

(The first settlers to arrive in California after the Native Americans were Spanish, and later Mexican. Spaniard Hernando de Soto, in 1541, was among the early European explorers to visit the territory, but it was a Frenchman, Henri de Tonti, who in 1686 founded the first permanent white settlement the Arkansas Post. Russia had some small settlements for the purpose of whaling and fur trapping in Northern California, but Russia didn’t attempt to colonize the area except in very isolated areas. Spanish priests were sent to California to covert the Indians to Christianity. Spain hoped to make the California native population into good Spaniards, loyal to Spain. Spain was becoming alarmed that the Russians and English were encroaching on lands claimed by Spain….)

Too bad our government refuses to do anything about our immigration problems. Maybe it’s time for us to start acting more like the Japanese.

Looking at the standards of places like London, New York, Los Angeles, etc – those cities around the world we all know about, those with tremendous amounts of “immigration” and “melting pot” of many peoples –

You mean all those economically powerful cities where the crime rates have been steadily dropping and over the last few decades?

Yeah. Total Baghdad situations there. We better keep Japan safe from that nightmare.

Architecturally it has taken a right pasting. What the Luftwaffe didn’t finish, modern architects are attacking.

You’re not trying to say the illegal population in CA is as much as 20 million, surely? That’s the high-end guesstimate for the entire country (for which a more reasoned figure is 11-12 million, nationwide).

“Already California feels like an extremely over crowded place.”

Compared to the 1960s, perhaps it is. Compared to Japan…?

“If California is used as a concrete example”

Why use it? Japan does not share a land border with a third-world nation, and even the Zainichi Koreans aren’t as big a legal minority as legal Hispanics are in the US (esp since much of the SW was Mexican to start with). A better example would be Britain, especially before it joined the EU.

I think you may be overthinking this. After all, you pass through “Immigration” when you arrive in a foreign country. True, we talk of “migrant workers,” but a lot of them stay as well.

Actually it would be an interesting experiment to try. Or perhaps not.

“Perhaps I’d go to France or Italy and become a baker. Enjoy good cheese and wine, and beautiful women.”

That’s fine. The French would welcome you. The problem would be if you said something like “Perhaps I’d go to France or Italy and become a radical imam. Arouse anti-Western religious fervour, import sectarian hatred, impose my cultural values, and foment the overthrow of Western civilization”….