Japan as an immigration nation : demographic change, economic necessity, and the human community concept /

"This book proposes a solution to three interrelated problems facing Japan: the rapidly declining population, a decrease in working age adults, and a lack of social and economic vitality. Hidenori Sakanaka, the former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, proposes that Japan accept ten...

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Main Author:	Sakanaka, Hidenori (Author)
Other Authors:	Eldridge, Robert D. (Translator), Leonard, Graham B. (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Japanese
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
Subjects:	Japan > Emigration and immigration > Government policy. Japan > Economic conditions > 21st century. Japan > Social conditions > 21st century. 2000-2099 Economic conditions. Social conditions. Emigration and immigration > Government policy. Japan.
Summary:	"This book proposes a solution to three interrelated problems facing Japan: the rapidly declining population, a decrease in working age adults, and a lack of social and economic vitality. Hidenori Sakanaka, the former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, proposes that Japan accept ten million immigrants, including refugees, over the next fifty years, and articulates the benefits of this measure for Japan and its future. The author has spent close to fifty years working in the field of immigration and was one of the first to identify the pending population crisis as early as the mid-1970s. This is the first time his thoughts appear in book-length form in English"--