Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Foreigners and Japan: Updated

Minority party Japan Innovation has announced its own proposals regarding immigration: limiting foreign residents as a percentage (no figure provided) of the population, and making it harder to become a naturalized citizen, with revocation of citizenship in unspecified cases. Another example of how the goalposts are moving in a certain direction. Here are two not-unrelated articles. In The Guardian: https://share.google/Tb6K7ghZ7Xn2W1DtI From The Asahi Shinbun: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16031070 As someone (Hemingway?) observed, collapse occurs gradually, then suddenly. Which is why I'm very concerned about what's happening in Japan. Here's what decades of gradual collapse looks like when it reaches critical mass: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/u-s-citizen-tased-detained-during-ice-operation-des-plaines/ (Countless other instances, of course.) Such as this: https://share.google/zYdvZf13c7SIT0uJd The Shining City on the Hill, the New Jerusalem, Land of the...

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