cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/44390561
Birthed on YouTube during the Covid-19 pandemic spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites, the party broke into mainstream politics with its “Japanese First” campaign.
Are there even people that really want to move to Japan? Its rather famous for being exclusionary to the point of making our western xenophobes blush. It seems that when I do read about people wanting to move it is someone who has some fascination with Japan itself; rather than the economic benefits like the US.
Yes, there are. Japanophiles are a thing too, but mostly you’re looking at East, South and Southeast Asians looking for economic opportunity in the same way Arabs and Turks move to Europe. Most common are Chinese and Vietnamese apparently. Also while Japan can get pretty exclusionary in its own way, most people are fine and there are plenty of good points.
I wouldn’t mind living on one of the depopulated islands in the south
I would love to live on Hokkaido. I’m a snowboarder. It’s heaven for me.
Hmmm, I had not considered that.
I want to live in a little 5x8’ coffin pod in Tokyo.
Yeah I’d love to live there but I’ve seen enough between the xenophobia and work culture to turn me off.
The country is beautiful and I would honestly enjoy it there. Their economy and xenophobia (and, realistically, language too) definitely stops me from ever moving there.
Also there’s always an infinite supply of weeaboos available.
As best I can tell, you really need to go there for someone or for some reason. Going just to work and do business isn’t the way.
Idk, some of the other commenters have some points, particularly around other asians trying to go there. I certainly would not want to live there (as cool as it seems)
Well, yes, people from the global south have, for a century, wanted to get into the global north. This is something we will see change within our lifetimes.