In Defense of Japan’s Immigration Policy (1)
Apr. 9 2011 - 4:26 am | 1,028 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
By STEPHEN HARNER
I have posted before on the bien pensant opinion that Japan’s immigration policy is–second only to its tenacious harvesting of whales and blue fin tuna–antediluvian at best, and more correctly reactionary and racist, as well as self-destructive if not suicidal. Now, we are talking about the Japanese, by the same accounts a remarkably civilized, cultured, and—as we have observed recently—orderly and uncomplaining people. How is it that they can be so wrong-minded about immigration?

To get a bit ahead of the argument, my own view of immigration begins with the question: To whom does a country belong? My answer: To its citizens. That is, citizens “ownâ€