Thread: Its Workers Aging, Japan Turns Away Immigrants

Its Workers Aging, Japan Turns Away Immigrants

Hiroko Tabuchi/The New York Times

Maria Fransiska says she studies Japanese eight hours a day to prepare for her nursing exam, which she must pass in order to stay in Japan. Her third and final shot at the exam is next month.

By HIROKO TABUCHI
Published: January 2, 2011

KASHIWA, Japan — Maria Fransiska, a young, hard-working nurse from Indonesia, is just the kind of worker Japan would seem to need to replenish its aging work force.

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But Ms. Fransiska, 26, is having to fight to stay. To extend her three-year stint at a hospital outside Tokyo, she must pass a standardized nursing exam administered in Japanese, a test so difficult that only 3 of the 600 nurses brought here from Indonesia and the Philippines since 2007 have passed.
So Ms. Fransiska spends eight hours in Japanese language drills, on top of her day job at the hospital. Her dictionary is dog-eared from countless queries, but she is determined: her starting salary of $2,400 a month was 10 times what she could earn back home, and if she fails, she will never be allowed to return to Japan on the same program again.
“I think I have something to contribute here,â€

[quote="JohnDoe2"][size=18] Though Japan had experienced a significant amount of migration in the decades after World War II, it was not until the dawn of Japan’s “bubble economyâ€

Japan is doing the right thing. This "aging population" propaganda is a very bad joke from the Globalists. We all know that with technological advances, all nations need LESS WORKERS not more, as the population "ages", as time goes by, as the world turns.

It's a simple law of the universe and why, for example, the highest unemployed group in the United States is our youngest workers with an unemployment rate of 25%. God only knows what the broad-based U6 unemployment rate is for this group, probably close to 50%.

All any country has to do to know what NOT to do to deliberately wreck their economy, deflate wages, grow the welfare police state and bankrupt their treasury is watch the United States destroy the greatest economy and the highest standard of living the world has ever seen in less than a decade.

But now, in 2011, the curtain on Act II has closed and soon Act II will be on stage led by Republicans committed to fixing our economy and doing so in a manner such that what has happened to the United States never ever happens again.

1. stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration
2. pass the FairTax
3. protect our trade
4. legalize/regulate/tax under 2 the illegal drug trade
5. drill baby drill

It's not complicated. It's very very simple.

Originally Posted by Judy

Now, in 2011, the curtain on Act I has closed and soon Act II will be on stage led by Republicans committed to fixing our economy and doing so in a manner such that what has happened to the United States never ever happens again.

1. stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration

This is why we should support Lamar Smith's priorities of beginning with increased use of E-Verify and more worksite enforcement.

If we put a stop to special-skills visa people being able to apply for citizenship, we'll keep the door open for our people to eventually get those jobs. And if we shorten the time that the visa people can work here, more people from their countries will be able to earn money to take back with them.
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Americans first in this magnificent country

American jobs for American workers

Fair trade, not free trade

Originally Posted by vistalad

Originally Posted by Judy

Now, in 2011, the curtain on Act I has closed and soon Act II will be on stage led by Republicans committed to fixing our economy and doing so in a manner such that what has happened to the United States never ever happens again.

1. stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration

This is why we should support Lamar Smith's priorities of beginning with increased use of E-Verify and more worksite enforcement.

If we put a stop to special-skills visa people being able to apply for citizenship, we'll keep the door open for our people to eventually get those jobs. And if we shorten the time that the visa people can work here, more people from their countries will be able to earn money to take back with them.
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Americans first in this magnificent country

American jobs for American workers

Fair trade, not free trade

Absolutely we need to support Lamar Smith's plan to make E-verify mandatory, but I must tell you, I'm pretty fed up with visa workers displacing Americans and stealing money out of our economy to take back home with them. Every dollar that leaves our economy that doesn't return is another dollar that has to be re-printed by the Federal Reserve. Immigrant remittances, visa worker duffel bag cash, drug money and trade deficits are depleting our money supply faster than we can count it every single day.

We have to stabilize our money supply on every front from immigration and free trade treason to the War on Drugs and foreign oil imports.

Funny....where are all the multiculturism fanatics, demanding Japan make it easier for throngs of third-world hordes to migrate to their country. Why is Japan allowed to keep their largely homogeneous country in tact, while here in America, we are told it’s in our own best interest to accept millions of third world invaders because of an aging native population!

Why no demands for Japan to become a multiculturist society, in which natives must press #1 for Japanese, just to name but one of the joys of multiculturism. Why would anyone have a problem with that?

Wow! You go girl! Excellent posts Judy! Both of them.

I have been waiting to see this subject brought up. This dog need not chase his tail. We need to look at debt and realize that interests on debt are robbing our own economy.

Daniel Webster spoke about those who would never have us pay off our debt. In fact he went as far as to say, that should we wish to be serious about paying off our debt, that those holding our debt would think about paying us not to do just that. (better add this in here; this is where he was talking about our nation being held in perpetual debt, servicing debt as opposed to paying off debt.)

We need to look at sustainability and quality as opposed to growth built upon debt. Servicing debt robs us of a certain potential for quality of life.

If debt is local and stays local it builds up the community, or at least has that potential. If debt is serviced far away from a distance then it may go away and the return will be less as the money will seek cheaper havens with slave economies.