[coldtea]

They don't want any random fix of their demographics where they just bring in young people of whatever nationality. They want a Japanese fix to their demographics.

If they viewed people as just interchangeable culturally, why even care about their falling demographics? Other Asian and Africans countries make up for them.

[aianus]

> If they viewed people as just interchangeable culturally, why even care about their falling demographics? Other Asian and Africans countries make up for them.

Because they need young, employed people locally to provide services to all the retirees.

[coldtea]

That might be what they need (or could also use and is more readily available), but I wrote about what they want.