Joe Biden asserted that Japan is facing economic struggles because it is a “xenophobic” country that has refused to embrace mass migration.
Biden made the comments at an election campaign fundraiser in Washington, during which he claimed the US economy was performing well “because we welcome immigrants.”
“Think about it,” he said. “Why is China stalling so badly economically, why is Japan having trouble, why is Russia, why is India, because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants. Immigrants are what makes us strong.”
Apparently, allowing over 7 million illegal immigrants to enter the U.S., a process that has prompted utter chaos at the US border, is the source of America’s greatest strength.
Biden’s comments fit part of a trend of Japan being put under pressure to accept “diversity” as a solution to its aging population and declining fertility rate.
Back in March, the East Asian nation doubles the cap on foreign skilled workers to over 800,000 people.
Japan is still around 97.5% ethnic Japanese, according to the CIA World Factbook, but all that could be set to change.
The number of foreign workers in Japan has now exceeded 2 million, a 12.4% increase on 2022. The East Asian country needs at least 647,000 working-age immigrants per year to meet its 11 million worker shortage by 2040.
“Japan is entering an era of mass foreign immigration,” said Junji Ikeda, president of Saikaikyo, a Hiroshima-based agency that sources and supervises foreign workers. “Incremental adjustments will not suffice,” he added.
The service industry will also be increasingly filled with foreign migrants, who will subsequently be allowed to bring their families to stay in Japan indefinitely.
The Economist reports that a “glimpse at Japan’s future” looks like convenience stores being staffed overwhelmingly by migrants, highlighting “the importance of immigration.”
The news outlet cites one such 7-Eleven store in central Tokyo where “all the staff are Burmese.”
At the end of last year, the Japanese government announced that crime had risen for the first time in 20 years, a situation native Japanese people might become more familiar with in the coming years.
A BBC News report about Japan’s previous refusal to adopt mass migration highlighted how the country was “stuck in the past,” with that past being characterized as “a peaceful, prosperous country with the longest life expectancy in the world, the lowest murder rate, little political conflict” and affordable property prices.
Oh no, how awful!
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Xenophobia is a sign of a healthy country.
Better a xenophobe than a complete idiot like you, eh Mr. Pretendident?
People must remain on their own land with their own kind. They do not belong elsewhere, mingling among others.
Oh, and Joe is a moron.
Biden is embarrassing us. His mindless comments are used by many foreign propagandists to score points on the decrepitude of America in general.
Oh, for a virile presence! Anyone, even a cowboy!
He says it like xenophobia is a bad thing? Not every ‘phobia’ is bad.
Um no, they just don’t hate themselves.
As white western man, I support Japan to protect its native population from mass migration.
If a globalist traitor sellout piece of F**king shit sellout globalist traitor call you xenophobic, then you are doing it right.
God bless Japan and let Japan be Japan.
And I call all those Humans who refuse to lick Kosher butt and commit suicide for the Nazis BRAVE and extremely INTELLIGENT!
#ArmageddonNow