[bamboozled]

Buddy, when your population is in decline at Japan levels I think it makes sense to have all the businesses you can get. I’ll also say compared to many local businesses in Japan, I know several that make 100-200x what the local, totally outdated <insert store / business type> make.

I’m talking hospitality, bar owners , cafe, therapists, even people who have setup manufacturing businesses building anything from prefabbed affordable housing and to handmade skis. These are business that need a lot of materiel and help the economy keep moving here. Many of these businesses exist because it was cheap to get started. Young people who came here for various reasons , had visions and executed. Many being the kind of people that make the world a better place.

Would you prefer Japan just imports south East Asian slaves and boots them at will, stifles any competition and just falls apart ?

I honestly found your comment really short sighted / uninformed.

[aurareturn]

The whole point of these investment visas is to inject large amounts of money into the country or build what the country wants to strategically. These $30k business visas, if it isn't a visa scam, is simply starting restaurants and small businesses that Japanese people can do themselves.

So what if their population is in decline? It'll just pick back up when there is plenty of space. Just because their population is in decline now doesn't mean they should import from other countries who most certainly do not share the local culture an is a disruption to their way of life.

Once again, I'm not Japanese and do not live there. What happens in Japan doesn't affect me. As a neutral bystander, the new rules make far more sense for Japan even if it hurts a few good honest foreigners.

[bamboozled]

So what if their population is in decline? It'll just pick back up when there is plenty of space.

So given the insane number of abandoned houses, villages and towns, how do you explain the continued decline is there is "plenty of space"?

[aurareturn]

You need space in areas with good economic opportunities. Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, etc.

[bamboozled]

Are you saying there is no space in those cities to have children ?

[aurareturn]

Correct. Not enough affordable space and resources.

[bamboozled]

There is plenty of space in Tokyo and Osaka, what are you actually on about?

[bamboozled]

Hopefully people like you realize many good things about Japan come from outside of Japan. People act like the only way Japan can survive is to return to some sort of isolationist state.

The good news is that once America becomes more liberal again, Japan will do, it's just a global outrage against "foreigners" going on right now which the herd follows.

[aurareturn]

Japan isn't isolationists. They're just fighting to keep their way of life.

[bamboozled]

Should other countries where Japan benefits greatly, ie Australia constantly move the goalposts on Japanese businesses and basically make life harder for them to protect “their way of life” ?

[aurareturn]

You lost me here.

[bamboozled]

That's expected because basically all your comments have been off the mark. I don't think you grasp the problem we were discussing really at all.