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Originally Posted by Twoller
From the Japan Times:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-b...0110317a3.html
I was a little confused about the basic news item here, "Spooked by the radiation leak at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, thousands of people this week have been applying for re-entry permits in preparation for evacuation from Japan."
Why would anyone need a re-entry permit to leave Japan? But of course the re-entry permit is for when they want to come back. They don't want to leave unless they can come back when things get comfortable again. This represents the soul of immigration in the world today. It is the license and leisure to come and go to any part of the planet where things are a little better. You come when they are better and you leave if they get worse. These people didn't ever give a crap about Japan, they just wanted something that Japan had. Now that Japan is threatened they flee and so naked is their avarice that they won't even flee unless they have some assurance of being able to come back when things get better. |
I think you may be confusing immigrants to Japan, with migrant workers or temporary workers to Japan. Japan does not permit liberal immigration like the US does, so the majority of these people in the article are not pledging themselves to the country, nor could they. When Japan doesn't need them anymore, they can be told to leave. Not that they shouldn't be greatful anyway, but there is little in the way of incentive beyond a paycheck for them