1. Migration in Japan
July 13rd 2015 , Kazusa Takeda

2. 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

3. 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%

4. 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

5. 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 ( )
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

6. Geographical Difficulty

7. 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 The 135 countries surveyed represent 93% of the world's adult population.

8. 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 city ranking by Mercer

9. 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)

10. 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

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

12. Thank you
for your attention