Sanseito announces foreigner policy- “The ratio of foreigners should be limited to 5% and they should go back when they get older. If the country’s strength declines, foreigners won’t come here. We need to strengthen the Japanese economy and return it to a country where people want to work”
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/f98da34d9350723b2c26da89f49752855c9f939a
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Ah yes, “limit foreigners to 5%,” use them while they’re young and productive, then politely discard them like expired milk once they age.
Nothing says strong economy like labor shortages, collapsing tax bases, and pretending demographics isn’t a math problem.
Also funny how they admit the quiet part out loud:
“If the country declines, foreigners won’t come.”
So the solution isn’t better wages, innovation, work-life balance, or productivity, it’s just… fewer people. Brilliant. Truly galaxy-brain economics.
That’s not nationalism.
That’s running a country like a disposable workforce subscription service.
“Thanks for building our economy now please leave before you need healthcare or pensions.”
Very strong. Very sustainable. Very 21st century. 👏
Go “back” you say? So pay way waaaaaaaaaayyyyy lower taxes?
lol.
Come work for us then get the fuck out.
Sure, as long as you make foreigners exempt from paying nenkin
Literally can’t understand what the fuck this is supposed to mean
Is he trans?
Facepalm.
Wow this country is fucked.
Weebs, are you listening?
Dude doesn’t consider reciprocal impact. Plenty of Japanese living overseas long term, in countries in agreements with Japan.
How about just raise the wages and stop exploiting your own citizens?
Seems like they are using foreigners as a means to deflect from giving everyone a better quality of life.
Typical fucking politicians, all filthy cockroaches every last one of them!
I think the ratio at the moment is 3.21%….so there’s a ways to go. Anyway…nobody really cares what Sanseito says.
5% so he wants more foreigners?!? To have more argument to justify his position?!?
K you gonna let them take the hafu kids with them?
Every one in the Jap govt recently has like ガイコン！(gaijin complex)
Get comparitively decimated in the election, go back to the old popular numbers I guess. May they see the same fate as Reiwa.
So basically they want people to work decades HERE, and contribute to social systems HERE, and then when they get older, go back to their original country where they likely haven’t paid into any social systems and may not qualify for them?
Thats what they want to do?
Of course these guys see other human beings as objects, use them while they are valuable, throw them away once they become useless. they have no morality and don’t even know the words social contract.
So just like that, they’re discarding their policy stance from the elections and go back to xenophobia? Not surprised, but this idiot needs to be shown the door.
> We need to strengthen the Japanese economy and return it to a country where people want to work
How about having any actual economic policy then lmao. Seriously kicking out foreign workers when they’re too old and encouraging Japanese people to work harder are two completely different things wtf is this even supposed to mean
This is what the japanese people want, which is why they elected this nationalist leader
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They’re all incel losers at Sanseito
Time to stop paying taxes and pension 😎
That’s not a policy it’s just ideology.
Yeah THAT’ll really motivate the pension and tax delinquents to start paying!!
(Edit for clarity: The rate of tax/pension delinquencies among foreigners tends to be about the same as Japanese nationals, and often is unintentional, caused by simple misunderstandings and such. But these Sanseito guys run on a platform that the foreigners don’t pay intentionally and commit a bunch of fraud and stuff. So in a world where that’s the case, the idea that you’re gone once your older, uh, wouldn’t really incentivize anyone to get clean and start paying.)
The Yahoo comments are WILD 😱🤯💀💩
Wtf kind of thinking is that? And why announcing policy since lost the election and have no power even as a coalition partner. Losers. LoL edit: autocorrect corrections.
My IQ has dropped reading the comments on that article. The same people who complain about foreigners committing crimes, lacking manners and language skills, and taking over low income areas are floating ideas like limiting residency to just a few years or a single job, restricting access to services, and segregating them from the local population.
By all means, debate upper limits and how many foreign workers are needed, but how do they not understand that by making it impossible to live like a local, people will not behave like locals.
Current LDP policy is the same. At least, Sensito is honest.
I don’t like this guy or people who support him.
Indeed. When I get older I should go back, leaving my (checks notes) Japanese wife and two Japanese children. On their own. To fend for themselves. With no money. Or support.
Yes, that is correct. 妥当、でしょう？
Absolute fucking idiots.
I love how completely braindead the far-right is, across all geographies. It’s like there’s one brain cell that’s shared by all of them.
“Where people will want to work”
シーぐ ハイルー！
Yeah. If, after paying into pension for many years, they’d take it away somehow… I’d probably become criminal.
They shoul go back when they are old
Holy hell
It is not easy to switch countries when you are older. If all of your savings/pension contributions are made in Japan with the Japanese system it is ridiculous to expect someone to return to their home country when they retire. It would be a tax nightmare.
And that does not even get into the fact that a foreigner that inherits assets from their parents living in a foreign country is expected to pay punitive Japanese inheritance taxes.
Isn’t the foreigner population in Japan currently 3%? He wants more?