[seanmcdirmid]

Japanese are incredibly xenophobic, it makes more financial sense just to import housekeepers from the Philippines or Indonesia, but many don't like the idea of that so they'll develop household robots instead (lucky for us!). Also, the rise of China set manufacturing robots back by about 10 or 15 years; we are just now beginning to recover.

[byoung2]

Japanese are incredibly xenophobic, it makes more financial sense just to import housekeepers from the Philippines or Indonesia, but many don't like the idea of that so they'll develop household robots instead

With the housing so limited in places like Tokyo, wouldn't it make more financial sense to get a robot you can store in a closet than hire a live-in housekeeper?

[rmc]

Sure, people like coming up with reasons why they aren't racist and xenophobic, and how it's perfectly logical, see?!

[seanmcdirmid]

Hong Kong is much more dense than Tokyo, and they have imported an army of Philippine and Indonesian house keepers.