
Sad image of immigrants to Japan
By OLAF KARTHAUS
As politicians, bureaucrats, think tanks and university professors have found out, the falling birthrate in Japan will lead to labor shortages and related problems. But why do so many newspaper articles point out the negatives of increased immigration? Here are just recent two exmples....
Is this the image of us that needs to be promoted? We foreigners are not working mules from which the owner should fear a bite. We are humans, are positive, often have families, and want to live a happy life in safety, too. Seeing increased immigration equated with increased crime really hurts!