Outside a train station nearby TokyoHundreds of people are happy as Sohe Kamiya, the head of the rising nationalist party SansitoCriticizes Japan’s rapidly growing foreign population.
As opponents, the uniformed police and separated by bodyguards, accusing him of racism, said that he was only talking about general knowledge.
SANSEITO, while still a modest party, made a big profit in the July parliamentary election, and Kamiya’s “Japani The first “platform, anti-immigration and anti-liberalism of anti-globalism is receiving extensive traction before a ruling party vote on Saturday that will choose the possibility of the next Prime Minister.
Anti -immigrant policies, which allow the populist to reduce their dissatisfaction at easy goals, are making more and more appeal Japani Since they struggle with declining salary, rising prices and future approaches.
“Many Japanese are disappointed with these problems, although we are very reserved for speaking. Mr. Kamiya is spelling for us all,” Kenzo Hagiya said, a retirement in the audience, who said that “foreign problem” is one of their biggest concerns.
The populist Serge comes as Japan, a traditional island nation that attains importance to analogity and uniformity, sees the record bounce of foreigners needed to increase its shrinking workforce.
In September, an angry protest against social media misunderstandings about an attractive floods by African immigrants revoked the government -led exchange program between four Japanese municipalities and African countries.
Even the governing party, which has promoted foreign labor and tourism, now asks for tight sanctions on foreigners, but without showing that Japan, which is one of the world’s fastest growing and one of the fastest population, can live financially without them.
Kamiya says that her platform has nothing to do with racism
“We only want to protect the peaceful life and public safety of Japanese,” he said at a rally in Yokohama, a major residential area for foreigners. He said that Japanese people tolerate foreigners who respect the “Japanese ways”, but those who stick to their own customs are not accepted because they start to scare, cause stress and rage the Japanese, they said.
Kamiya said that the government is allowing foreign workers in the country to benefit only large Japanese businesses.
“When Japanese come first, Japanese are struggling to meet time and suffer from fear?” Kamiya asked. “We are just saying clearly in a clear way. It is wrong to attack us for racial discrimination.”
Kamiya’s anti -immigrant message is receiving traction
All five candidates who compete in Saturday’s Governing Liberal Democratic Party Leadership Vote are taking strict measures on foreigners as Prime Minister to change the outgoing Shigeru Ishiba.
One of the favorite, former Economic Security Minister Sanaaye Takachi, a hardcore ultra-curidist, unconfirmed claims were criticized that foreign tourists abused the deer in a park in a park in the slogan.
Later, Takachi said that she wanted to express an anxiety and anger of anger among many Japanese about “derogatory” foreigners.
During the July election campaign, distant candidates insulted Japan’s around 2,000 KurdsMany of which fled from harassment in Türkiye.
A Kurdish citizen, who fled to Japan as a child after facing arrests to complain to his father to complain about military spy, said he and his fellow Kurds had to deal with people calling criminals on social media.
Japan has a history of dating from the colonial era in the first half of the 20th century, discrimination against ethnic Korean and Chinese.
With humiliation and attacks targeting Chinese migrants, investors and their businesses, some of that discrimination still remain.
Hong Vinh TN, 44 -year -old, a Vietnamese resident, who has lived in Japan for more than 20 years, says that foreigners often have underpaded and have to face discrimination, including renting apartments. He says that he has worked hard to accept as part of the community.
“As we hear about the troubles that involve foreigners, I share the concerns of the Japanese people who want to protect Japan, and I support the strict measures of any country of any country including Vietnam,” said Hoang.
Increase in foreign numbers, but is almost not enough to increase the economy
Japan’s foreign population hit a new high of over 3.7 million last year. This is only 3% of the country’s population. Japan, which also promotes inbound tourism, aims to achieve 60 million visitors in 2030, which is more than 50 million last year.
According to health, labor and welfare data, the foreign workforce in the last decade has tripled records of record 2.3 million last year. A year ago, the growth of 300,000 was doubled at an estimated speed. Many work in manufacturing, retail, farming and fishing.
Even the foreign population increased, only 12,000 foreigners were arrested last year, despite the claims of the alarmists that a crimwave would show the figures of the National Police Agency.
In 1993, the Pro-Business ruling Liberal Democratic Party launched a foreign trainee program and since then expanded its scope in the stages. But the program has been criticized as an exploitative attempt for a domestic workforce. It will be renewed with more flexibility for workers in 2027 and strict oversight for employers.
Many Japanese immigrants see as cheap labor, who speak a little Japanese, allow their children to get out of school and live in high-pronounced communities, Tosaihiro Menju, International Studies of the University of Josai, calls a professor and expert of immigration policies in international studies of the University of Josai.
He says that prejudice stems from Japan’s “secret immigration system” that accepts foreign labor as real immigrants, but provides a clarification to the public to help the public without providing adequate support or helping the public.
In the 50s, a SANSEITO supporter echoed some of these views, but admitted that he had never faced trouble with foreigners.
Meanwhile, Japan faces real economic pain if it does not detect the immigration issue.
According to a study by Japan International Cooperation Agency, the nation will currently require three times more foreign workers or a total of 6.7 million people, it allows to achieve an annual growth of 1.24%. Without these workers, the Japanese economy, including farming, fishing and service sectors, will be paralyzed, experts say.
It is not clear whether Japan can attract many foreign workers in the future, as its decreasing salary and lack of diversity make it less attractive.
A growing party that is part of a changing political scenario
Sainseito began in 2020 when Kamiya began to attract people on YouTube and social media who were dissatisfied with traditional parties.
Kamiya, a former assembly member in the city of Suita near Osaka, focus on the modern history of Japan, the principles of the conspiracy, the revisionist ideas of the anti-vaccine ideas and spirituality.
Kamiya said that she is “extremely inspired by US President Donald Trump’s” anti -global policies “, but not his style. He invited Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and a colleague of Trump, for talks in Tokyo, before he was joining the German party (AFD) and the UK reforms like UK even before his murder.
His priority, he said in an interview with the Associated Press, to further expand his support base, and he expects to bring more than 100 candidates to the fray in future elections.