Posted on 09/30/2015 1:49:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Prime minister Shinzo Abe rejects criticism of a policy that has seen only 11 people given asylum in the past year.
Japan must improve the living standards of its own people before it can consider accepting Syrian refugees, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe said, as he announced $1.6bn in new assistance for Syrians and Iraqis caught up in conflicts in the Middle East.
Abe’s consistent refusal to consider allowing even a modest number of refugees to relocate to Japan has prompted criticism of the country’s strict policy on asylum: last year, it received a record 5,000 applications but accepted just 11 people.
Speaking at the UN general assembly in New York, Abe insisted Japan must first tackle crises posed by its falling birth rate and an ageing population, and continue its push to boost the number of women in the labour market.
“It is an issue of demography,” Abe told reporters after his speech to the UN general assembly. “I would say that before accepting immigrants or refugees, we need to have more activities by women, elderly people and we must raise our birth rate. There are many things that we should do before accepting immigrants.”(continued)
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They know better.
Smart move by Japan!
Japanese have always been big on their racial superiority.
Just ask the Unit 731 victims.
But they can’t say the obvious: We don’t want unemployed, handout-seeking, uneducated terrorist males raping and pillaging in our country. No thanks!
11 lol.
My mother has that many brothers and sisters :)
They prefer robots to immigrants.
They know way more than the idiots that run our country.
It’s easier to win the Powerball than to become a Japanese citizen.
Shades of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
And not without a reason. For example, robots do not need to embrace the Japanese culture.
BamBam ain’t no Admiral Perry.
This is why Japan - as a culture - has been around some 2500 years.
While modern western culture is soon to be dominated by a culture founded in 610 AD.
“robots do not need to embrace the Japanese culture.”
Nor do they ever complain, nor reproduce. They don’t have temper tantrums, and you don’t need to change their dirty nappies. The perfect labor force.
In the 90`s Japan had freaking TONS of illegal Iranian illegals and they raised complete hell.
They will NEVER take large or even medium numbers of Muslims ever again.
“11 refugees! LOL”
Wise ass. 11 terrorists can do a LOT OF DAMAGE, as it only took 10 to take down the World Trade Center. The Japanese are IDIOTS to allow so many into their country. Nothing good can come of it.
Thankfully us and Europe are smarter, we’re only admitting several million (to start with)...uh...maybe the Japanese aren’t so dumb.
“Nor do they ever complain, nor reproduce. They don’t have temper tantrums, and you don’t need to change their dirty nappies. The perfect labor force.”
True, and even more so for their robots.
Gaijin.
THIS!!
The whole migrant “crisis” is a UN driven one trying to motivate us to use our “hearts” and not our heads...
The Media strums the heartstrings with breathless reports of the “refugees” of which more than 90% are males between 18-40 (may be off slightly)
Never let a crisis go to waste and Globull Warming is dead
Japan has kept their nation for over 1000 years from being diluted by immigration that they dont need or want.
China can settle these Syrians in the NW where their other Muslims live already.
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