Japan As an Immigration Nation

Hidenori Sakanaka

doi:10.5771/9781793614940

Japan As an Immigration Nation

Demographic Change, Economic Necessity, and the Human Community Concept

1. Edition 2020

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doi.org/10.5771/9781793614940
ISBN print: 978-1-7936-1493-3
ISBN online: 978-1-7936-1494-0
Lexington, Lanham Lexington, Lanham

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Abstract

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.

Schlagworte

Japanese immigrants Japanese immigration Japanese multiculturalism Japanese society aging society immigration immigration reform population decline global community

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i–xvi Preface i–xvi
1–22 Chapter One: The Need for an “Immigration Revolution” and a “Japanese Revolution” 1–22
23–40 Chapter Two: The Development of the “Human Community” Concept 23–40
41–82 Chapter Three: Politician, Bureaucrat, Revolutionary 41–82
83–104 Chapter Four: Japanese Immigration Policy Is Preceded by Global Praise 83–104
105–122 Chapter Five: Leader of the National Commitment to Immigration 105–122
123–144 Chapter Six: The Spirit of the Japanese-style Immigration Nation 123–144
145–156 Chapter Seven: Economics, Finances, and Immigration Policy 145–156
157–170 Chapter Eight: Population and Immigrants 157–170
171–198 Chapter Nine: The Human Community—Global Citizens—Hybrid Japan 171–198
199–212 Chapter Ten: The Return of Japanese Left Behind in North Korea 199–212
213–260 Chapter Eleven: The Path Travelled by the Director of the Japan Immigration Policy Institute 213–260
261–264 Conclusion 261–264
265–266 Contributor Biographies 265–266
267–270 Index 267–270

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