Japanese Immigration 2007

By: Michael Vesci

Japanese were not very allowing of immigrants in 2007 Fact: Over 100,000 students enroll into Japanese schools, but only 20,000

are immigrants 158,770 professors work in Japan, only 5,652 of them are immigrants Japanese hire foreigners for three or less years and tell them what to teach Belief of foreigners not being hired is politics "National public universities were banned from employing foreigners full

time until the 1990s because employees were classed as civil servants." Hiroshi Komiyama, President of the University of Tokyo

"Japanese universities are not doing well, and one reason is because the education students are getting is homogenous," Bruce Stronach, President of Yokohama City University.

Japanese Immigrants: Schooling

Universities believe foreign workers would increase workload on current workers

"I was at a university where female faculty members would get off the elevator and take the stair, They said they didn't want to be alone with a foreigner because you didn't know what was going to happen." Mr. Mulvey, of Miyazaki.

"It's a bit uncomfortable, but management said all foreign teachers should be on one-year contracts," Toshikazu Kuwabara, dean of the school

Japanese Immigrants: Universities

 "Japanese universities are wary of committing themselves to people who claim they might stay but who take off after a few years,"I was told when I became full-time that I must stay 10 years or we're not interested.' Foreigners sometimes don't stay around for very long." Mr. Snowden, dean of international studies at Waseda

"The vast majority of universities in this country will not hire or even consider foreigners for tenured positions, regardless of language level, publication record, and teaching ability."Mr. Mulvey, Fluent Japanese speaker and reader

Japanese Immigrants: Universities(Continued)

Over one million foreign students are expected to be going to Japanese schools by 2025

Ten million foreigners will come to Japan in the next fifty years under new laws

No expectations of shortage in workers with new foreigners in Japan Ten percent of Japan is made up of immigrants (10% of Japan’s

population) "The plan emphasizes that we will accept immigrants, not foreign workers,

and let them live in Japan permanently,“ Akio Nakayama, manager of the Tokyo office of the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration

"We will train immigrants and make sure they get jobs and their families have decent lives,"Hidenori Sakanaka, director general of the private think tank Japan Immigration Policy Institute.

Japanese Immigration: Today

People overstaying their visas will be deported Law will force 110,000 people to be tracked down and forced to leave the

country Foreigners with valid visas will be treated w/ more convince, invalid visas

will be forced to stay in hiding Zairyu cards will contain personal info and a code number to help

Japanese officials track down foreigners A fine of 200,000 Yen (1,974.20 USD) if found w/o card "We need these bills to be enacted. We need to know how many foreigners

there are and where they live. So consolidating information into the Justice Ministry is necessary," DPJ lawmaker Ritsuo Hosokawa, who helped draft the bills in the Lower House Justice Committee.

Japanese Immigration: New Law