Japan says it must look after its own before allowing in Syrian refugees (11 refugees! LOL)

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)

“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.

Let's say that Japanese can invent mechanical "slaves" who would look and act like those that Romans had, but with gears and wires inside. Then Japanese could lay by their dinner tables all day long, eat, talk, relax, while being served by those mechanisms - again, just like Romans, but without the stigma of using slave labor. Would that be socially acceptable? (Note: this is Asimov's Solaria.)

Ultimately, Solaria became totally dependent on robot labor; roughly 10,000 robots existed for every human. The world was extremely sparsely inhabited, with only 20,000 humans (and 200 million robots) inhabiting 30 million miles² (78 million km²) of fertile land, divided into over 10,000 huge estates (the exact number is unknown, since some of the estates were inhabited by couples). The population was kept stable through strict birth and immigration controls. In the era of Robots and Empire, no more than five thousand Solarians were known to remain. 20,000 years later, the population was 1200—one human per estate.

If that's the direction that Japan has in mind, no wonder that they don't need additional people. They already have too many.

Look at the fuss they could afford to make for this ONE Chinese illegal who had overstayed just ONE YEAR..!

I translated this vid, and mind you, this was after they had really, realllllllly cleaned things up.

There were JILLIONS of Iranians hanging around the main stations, starrrrrrrrring at chix, dealing drugs and fake phone cards (all gone now).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uz6_tybfEY

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