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Many foreign entrepreneurs desperate as Japan tightens 'business manager' visa rules - The Mainichi (mainichi.jp)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by iuseasahibtw@ani.social to c/world@lemmy.world

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Chinese nationals are among those increasingly seeking to move to Japan. In some cases, parents hoping to accompany children studying in Japan set up businesses and come to the country on business manager visas. One administrative scrivener who helps Chinese clients obtain and renew their residency status said, "While there are people who seriously run businesses, some obtain residence status as managers using business plans and corporate registrations with no real substance." According to him, there are also cases in which people create fictitious transactions among acquaintances to show the business performance needed for renewal, or obtain residence status using a dummy company and work at a different company instead.

Stop moving to Japan and trying to live there.

The country has been dying for decades, and is far behind China and America. They've been deceiving people for decades that they're some super power, or ahead of the curb in tech.

This was true during the 80s and 90s, but not now. Japan has a dying population, a retirement fund that is quickly running out, a robotics sector that values demonstrations over actually useful products (China has cornered the market on a generalized, cheap, easy to produce robot useful for general labor and simple tasks), and a government that is placing the blame all on immigrants.

They have always had a problem with foreigners, it's why they committed some of the worst massacres and genocides of the Chinese, Filipinos, Malays, and other SEA and Asian people. They hate you, don't let Anime or goon bait brain wash you into thinking overwise.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We don't allow ableist slurs. The article is fine, your commentary is not.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Immigration? That thing that skews populations a little younger, that breaks up culture a little? Exactly what Japan needs?

I hate to say it, but I hope the example they set as they spiral into a demographic crisis scare some xenophobia and gerontocracy out of the rest of the world.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

People? Learning something from others? Behave!

Fucking up is like a holy torch of tradition that gets handed around, it seems.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should probably do some more research before commenting like that. In reality, the visa that they're talking about was only used by a couple thousand people every year. That's a tiny number of the immigrants to the country. And as for whether the country is a good place to live, that really depends on where you're coming from. Obviously negative population pressure is a major risk, but that's also true in many other places. And you always have the option of moving to the country and working there for a while before moving somewhere else.

So basically nothing that you wrote was actually worth reading. But I hope you had fun with your rant.