Why Are There So Few Muslims in Japan?
April 29, 2014
S. from India writes:
India is facing a terrifying influx of Muslims from Bangladesh. How much of our crime is a direct result of this, no one dares ask, but the news items that give away names do give away this fact. The socialist intelligentia, press, political parties are all maintaining a conspiracy of silence.
A friend posted this on Facebook. Japan, which has relatively few Muslims, makes for a compelling study:
“Another thing that helps the Japanese keep Muslim immigration to their shores to a minimum is the Japanese attitude toward the employee and employment. Migrant workers are perceived negatively in Japan, because they take the place of Japanese workers.
The fact that the public and the officials are united in their attitude against Muslim immigration has created a sort of iron wall around Japan that Muslims lack both the permission and the capability to overcome. This iron wall silences the world’s criticism of Japan in this matter, because the world understands that there is no point in criticizing the Japanese, since criticism will not convince them to open the gates of Japan to Muslim immigration.
Japan is teaching the whole world an interesting lesson: there is a direct correlation between national heritage and permission to immigrate: a people that has a solid and clear national heritage and identity will not allow the unemployed of the world to enter its country; and a people whose cultural heritage and national identity is weak and fragile, has no defense mechanisms to prevent a foreign culture from penetrating into its country and its land.”
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B.E. writes:
Another reason why there are so few Moslems in Japan is that the Japanese have already had problems with illegal alien Moslems.
As I heard it, in the 1990s, someone in Japan came up with the idea of setting up a reciprocal agreement with Iran which allowed the citizens of either country to enter the other without applying for a visa in advance. The Japanese wanted this because it would make it easy for Japanese businessmen to enter Iran; apparently, Japan buys some of its oil, etc. from Iran. The Japanese naively thought that no Iranian would want to come to Japan.
Well, they did, and before long, there were Iranian faces at seemingly every Japanese construction site. Iranians were entering Japan legally, finding work as laborers (thus violating the terms of their visas), and then overstaying their visas. Japanese police, many of whom are the bureaucrat’s bureaucrat, were prevented by regulation from asking, without cause, for proof of the appropriate kind of visa. The problem worsened: more Iranians came. Some Iranians were homeless; some engaged in petty crime.
The Japanese solution was to cancel the visa agreement with Iran. After a while, all “automatic” visas issued to Iranians expired, so the default assumption was that any Iranian in Japan had overstayed his visa. Being visibly different, the Iranians were easily identified, rounded up, and sent packing.
Having already experienced, to a very mild degree, the sort of disorder that results from an influx of unassimilable foreigners, the Japanese are, for the time being anyway, unlikely to repeat that mistake. Even though they need, for example, more nurses to care for their aging population, they steadfastly refuse to allow Filipina nurses in. The Japanese solution to this problem? Robots. They have not figured out that huge numbers of women in the workforce, along with numerous other factors, such as legal prostitution and the ubiquity of depraved pornography, are depressing the birth rate, so they aren’t addressing the root issues, but at least they will not exacerbate their problems through mass immigration.