Migration in Japan July 13rd 2015 , Kazusa Takeda

Comparison in G7 Population of immigrants USA 43 million Germany 11 million Canada 7.2 million UK 7 million France 6.9 million Italy 4.5 million Japan 2.2 million

Comparison in G7 Percentage of the immigrants’ population Canada 21.3% USA 13.8% Germany 13.2% UK 11.2 % France 10.3% Italy 7.6% Japan 1.7%

Multicultural Symbiotic Society After the second world war, a lot of developed countries introduced the idea “Multicultural Symbiotic Society” Many immigrants contributed to reconstructing after the war Their offspring keep living in Europe -The birth rate of immigrants is very high in general

Cultural Difficulty In Japan there were no such a conception like “Multicultural symbiotic Society” Japan was under the policy “locked country” for the past 200 years (1639-1854) Under this policy, no foreigner could enter into Japan and no Japanese could leave Japan This policy must have affected the mentality of Japanese people

Geographical Difficulty

Survey Methods Results are based on aggregated telephone and face-to-face interviews with 259,542 adults, aged 15 and older, in 135 countries from 2007 to 2009. The 135 countries surveyed represent 93% of the world's adult population.

Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2012 - city ranking by Mercer Financial Difficulty 1. Tokyo 2.Luanda 3.Osaka : 5.Geneva 10.Nagoya 11.Sydney : 21. Copenhagen 25. London 33. New York 37. Paris Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2012 - city ranking by Mercer

Language Difficulty Japanese language leaners need to memorize thousands of characters Three different writing systems Honorific is so complicated. (but it is very important in Japanese society)

Henceforth There are 50 million refugees over the world In 2014 Japan accepted only 11 refugees (Germany accepted hundred thousand refugees in 2014) To accept immigrants could help the lack of labor force in Japan The government must take action to accept many more immigrants and refugees

Reference Compare your country by OECD http://www.oecd.org Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2012 - city ranking by Merce DESTATIS – Statistisches Bundesamt https://www.destatis.de/DE/Startseite.html “What Is Expected of the State? Immigration Policy in Japan” by Abe Atsuko (Obirin University)　

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