Japan

Oh ho, rumors that Japan is discussing removing the permanent visa status, and getting hard on immigration.

Rumors, and HR departments asking people to share their exact status, etc. Highly qualified colleague (HB-1 like) whose 5-year visa renewal has become one year despite marriage and child.

New government alright. But the mood is different this time.

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Indeed for Japan. It has never been really easy to come and stay. After a decade opening more (from circa 2014 many visa conditions were easier to meet), this may just be going back to the mean.

There is something different to me though, after more than two decades here, a different political+geopolitical context for sure, and different approach at addressing the situation.

Japan’s population remains old and getting older. There is no model that can claim the country can continue “well” without an influx of external people. Except far-right and dubious numbers based on using women.

Sigh

The US has been a historic outlier and most countries were always closer to closed than open. We may be regressing to the mean here.

I may be too old and “qualified” to worry about my status in Japan, but two things:

- who knows?
- this reminds of the taste of precarious life, that many people suffer far beyond personal experience, eg people in farming/construction in the US. To be honest just imagining what these people are living is disturbing when the taste lingers in the mind.

Got some more information: Official training for HR hinted at coming change and at hardening demanded directly by the new PM.

No more information for now, and nothing specific to HSP or PR visas's future.

Super appreciative of this HR department looking ahead and wanting to make sure all is good by doing preemptive and extensive checks.

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A trend likely led by what is happening in the US… slope to the right.

What is really strange is that the excuse to be “highly qualified” or permanent resident for decades—basically history free of “problems”—are suddenly ignored and may count for nothing.

I think this is part of a global megatrend among OECD countries based on what I’m seeing in other jurisdictions too

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yeah that rise sounds all too familiar same playbook different flag fear sells better than facts and history keeps looping

Unfortunately that may be a reality. This year has seen the new far-right party move from 1 to like 14 seats out of some 120 at the Diet. As MJGA is hard to pronounce, they went for “Japanese First”, on information debunked by official stats.

yeah that’s unsettling when policy shifts quietly hit the people first before the headlines even drop sounds like japan tightening the gates again under the usual “reform” label

Japan is less than 4% or so foreigners, so quite different duration.

Also, not sure what you mean by “as bad as Europe”. I care about the topic, and all I can see is more mainstream media alarmism than confirmation from hard numbers (including official statistics).

Honestly, this is a better move for them to deal with illegal immigrants before the situation becomes as bad as it is in Europe.

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Sharing here a rumor (but more than that, never ever for questioned like that in more than two decades), sorry, to warn and get community watch.

Rumors as announced in the OC. But got information from a friend who worked at the immigration bureau, and I mentioned HR.

More precisely HR from one of our investors questioning all foreigners’ members in our team. You may know too well that they don’t do that usually around here…

Sources?

I have a Japanese PR, so I'm definitely interested by this topic XD

这个人很懒，什么也没有留下。

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Thank you for your input. Sure the information I shared is anecdotal (and from the outset announced as rumor for part of it), yet about a dozen people in a couple companies. I have never seen such a coincidence.

I hope this remains anecdotal in my small world, and appreciate we all share information.

Personally, I see no likely impact. But I’ve seen drama for younger people, which can be avoided. And I do believe the country will benefit from immigration.

暂时没这些感受～高才续签和拿pr也得看分数、交金情况、每年待的时间的，比较多影响因素，同样是高才签证，有70多分工资不多换工作不稳定交金不及时的，也有100多分高工资稳定的，个例问题得排除一下其他因素，不能直接作为论据。