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AdUnfair558 on April 30, 2026 10:34 am This topic really interests me. I am interested to see what kind of results it will have on Japanese people. Or if they’ll even care. It just seems to me Japanese want to enjoy foreign cultures in Japan without having to deal with the results of having said foreign cultures in Japan.
Ok_Holiday_2987 on April 30, 2026 1:21 pm So, there were 41,615 people with these visas last year, in a country of 122 million, or 0.00034%, did they make any cost/benefit analysis available?
GemelosAvitia on April 30, 2026 2:39 pm Japan is going to disappear into irrelevance and I guess they are OK with that.
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This topic really interests me. I am interested to see what kind of results it will have on Japanese people. Or if they’ll even care.
It just seems to me Japanese want to enjoy foreign cultures in Japan without having to deal with the results of having said foreign cultures in Japan.
So, there were 41,615 people with these visas last year, in a country of 122 million, or 0.00034%, did they make any cost/benefit analysis available?
Japan is going to disappear into irrelevance and I guess they are OK with that.