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Japanese Laws and Concerning Immigration
Japanese
constitution was amendments dramatically after were defeated in World War
Second. Japan was used to be militarism since then democratic government. There
were changing for everything such as education, regulations and eventually the
nation`s beliefs. But it have never changed one important thing that “the
Emperor system “of Japan. In the article, “ Japanese Laws and Policies
concerning Immigration” by Brian Bailey illustrates:
“The United States and Japan both strive
for high economic growth, ceteris paribus. Policymakers in the United States
partly justify America's liberal immigration laws on the basis that it benefits
the economy. The immigration contributes significantly to economic growth.
Japan that has had virtually no permanent immigration since WWII, yet whose
economy grew remarkably faster than the United States', even granting that it
started from a lower GDP base. There were as many as 563,681( including 292,791 were
illegals) unskilled foreign workers in Japan on 1992.
The total for unskilled foreign workers comes from adding those present in
Japan with the statuses of trainee, college student, pre-college student to the
number of Japanese-descended South Americans in Japan and to the number of
estimated foreigners staying in Japan. The presence of
the illegal foreign workers is what most commentators and most Japanese
see as "the problem." But this really is not the problem. The
presence of illegal foreign workers is a symptom of an underlying
problem. This underlying problem is that Japan has and will, for the
foreseeable future, have a need for unskilled labor which cannot be met by
domestic supply. However, the rest of Asia, as it is developing, has a surplus
of unskilled workers who are attracted by Japan's high wages.
Historically, Japan's own
philosophical standards regarding its place in Asia have changed dramatically.
Since the Meiji period, Japan has allowed the emigration of Japanese to the
rest of Asia and even to the United States. However, a series of diplomatic
problems erupted when the U.S. affected the Gentleman's Agreement with Japan in
1907 which stemmed the flow of Japanese 'yellows' to the United States. Next,
with the Immigration Act of 1924, Japanese were all but barred from entering
the United States. By World
War II, the crusading philosophy for Japanese penetration of Asia was
"Asia for Asiatics." Of course, this could be more accurately
translated as "Asia for the Japanese" because there was no
significant movement of other Asians to Japan (except forcibly as colonial
subjects), yet the spread of Japanese emigrants to other Asian countries
certainly accelerated--between 1935 and 1945, 265,789 Japanese emigrated to
Manchuria and 18,711 to Southeast Asian countries. No doubt that if Japan had
won WWII, emigration would have continued and increased as the victors sought
to occupy the conquered.
During
WWII, there was an intangible bond between Japan and the rest of Asia, even if
the only commonality was a mutual hatred of Westerners in Asia.Today the tables
have been turned. Japan keeps Asia at arms-length from itself. Many Asians
believe the rest of Asia is important to Japan so far as it is a market for
Japanese goods, a source for raw materials, and a source of cheap labor for
overseas Japanese conglomerates. When it comes to Asians, however, heading
to Japan to do 3K( Kitsui means severe, Kitanai means dirty, and Kirai means
hated) work, Japan recoils”(
Sources:
Brian
Bailey " Japanese Laws and Policies concerning Immigration"
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