Japanese Migration Essay

Japan, Land of the Rising Sun is the one of the best places to live. Japan has been attracting a lots of foreigners to live work there as a happy expat since the 60’s (Shockerz Lee, 2009). In this year, foreigners visit Japan and Japanese people go abroad rapidly increase, due to the progress in internationalization of the world community (Laura I, n.d.). Based on information of Sakanaka Hidenori (n.d.), Japan's population, which peaked at 128 million in 2004, is falling. The number of migrants more than immigrants will cause labor shortages and become a major problem for Japan's economy. It is reason why lots of Japanese migrated abroad to find better opportunities not only for their jobs but also their life. The most important is they want

In the past, there were many people move from other areas to Japan as well as from Japan to different countries. In 1910, when Korea was a colony of Japan, lots of Korean people came to Japan (Migration, n.d.). Besides that, the number of Korean was nearly two million people in Japan in 1945 because of conscripted laborers (Migration, n.d.). Nonetheless, Japanese businesses and government did not want to depend on foreign workers even though there were not enough experienced Japanese labors in the 1960s (Migration, n.d.). For this reason, the number of migration decreased in these years (Migration, n.d.). Moreover, in the 1970s many foreigners came from China, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam to Japan to live and work (Dolsenz, 2014). However, in 1980, when the Japanese economy developed, it attracted many people overseas and the number of those people increased from 100,000 to 300,000 people between 1990 and 1993 (Migration, n.d.). Furthermore, between the 1990s and the beginning 21st century, more than 50,000 labors went to and worked in Japan from foreign countries such as Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (Dolsenz, 2014). On the

The prominent factor is seeking employment. Some reports point out that Japanese who were worker is over 55 years old which accounting for one-third of workers and so far they will be retired, besides that there are many companies are struggling for human resources, a specific number is 41% (Nhat mo cua, n.d.). Thus, to solve this problem, the Japanese authorities have to consider the adoption of a large number of migrants, which could be up to 200.000 people (Iwamoto, 2014). And it helps to promote long-term economic potential as well as to offset the rapid aging in the land of cherry blossoms. In the other case, a part of migrants is students or researchers who wish to have long-term study in Japan. Because of thriving on technology, so many people want to go to Japan to learn more about technique system. For instance, there were around 141,700 foreigners students in 2010 just before the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 which saw a mass exodus of foreign students and 137,750 which accounted for 2012 (Kakuchi, 2014). Not only, having people come into Japan, there are also many people, including foreigners and Japanese leave the land of the rising sun to find a better future. For some Japanese students, they want to change their life by finding countries which are higher standard of living such as Switzerland,