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Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home

Apr 24, 2009 00:44

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Rita Yamaoka, a mother of three who immigrated from Brazil, recently lost her factory job here. Now, Japan has made her an offer she might not be able to refuse ( Read more... )

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erunamiryene April 23 2009, 16:52:26 UTC

I just want to say that I LOVE Okinawa. I was stationed there for a year and it was hands down my favorite place that I was ever stationed.

/comment unrelated to news story

keeni84 April 23 2009, 16:54:25 UTC

/jealous

My sis and I are planning a trip to Okinawa sometime soon. I'm very excited.

erunamiryene April 23 2009, 16:55:27 UTC

I'm going to go back sometime, if only to go eat at Coco Curry again - I practically LIVED there when I was there. :D

keeni84 April 23 2009, 17:03:03 UTC

Ahhh Coco Curry. Yes.

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keeni84 April 23 2009, 16:53:04 UTC

I am so sick of Japanese xenophobia. You're not all "Japanese" anyway, assholes.

art_house_queen April 23 2009, 16:57:54 UTC

THIS THIS THIS!

keeni84 April 23 2009, 17:05:15 UTC

Yeah, I love how they're all: OMG America sucks! Riiight. STFD, Japan.

art_house_queen April 23 2009, 16:57:07 UTC

This is SO stupid. No one is having babies here in Japan. Japanese women are having like one baby in their entire lives. How are they going to survive if they are doing this to their foreign workers?

Honestly!!

We should stop letting unskilled laborers into Japan. We should make sure that even the three-K jobs are paid well, and that they are filled by Japanese,” he said. “I do not think that Japan should ever become a multiethnic society.

Japan is already a multiethnic society...and can only survive as immigrants come in greater numbers. So many of my students now are half Fillipino or half Chinese...they need to wake up and realize that closing themselves in is not going to help at all.

goes_kaboom April 23 2009, 17:02:39 UTC

If you're going to be a xenophobic ass, at least own it. Don't blame it on another country: then not only are you a xenophobic ass, you're a xenophobic, weak willed ass.

goes_kaboom April 23 2009, 17:09:40 UTC

In addition, it's easy for us in America to shake our heads and tsk-tsk at the Japanese... but realistically, dangerously close to half of us would jump at the chance to deport immigrants, legal and otherwise, from This Great Country of Ours as well. Without payment.

liliaeth April 23 2009, 21:51:02 UTC

But isn't your entire population, with the exception of native Americans, a bunch of immigrants?

serendipity_15 April 23 2009, 22:06:33 UTC

Yeah, that's the ironic thing, they want to deport all immigrants forgetting that their ancestors weren't from here unless they really Native Americans.

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homasse April 23 2009, 17:09:30 UTC

I read about this in the Japan Times, and David Arudo had a big Op-Ed on this, showing how Japan had pretty much failed all around with the Nikkei because they were like, "They're Japanese! They'll magically fit right in because of their Japanese blood!" and so had no support whatsoever. *headdesk*

stardust9121 April 23 2009, 17:11:44 UTC

Debito Arudo has got to be having a field day with this.

art_house_queen April 23 2009, 17:28:15 UTC

Oh Debito...

everythingonit April 24 2009, 02:13:42 UTC

Lots of people are like, "They're Japanese!" even I tend to think that way before I realize, that culturally, they're South American.

I did meet a sweet old lady once from Brazil. She was Japanese and was telling me about how hard it was for her to learn Spanish and then she told me she wanted to speak English as nicely as me... /digression.