Immigration and population issue in Japan

           Appropriate immigration acceptance policy leads o a bright future in Japan. Japan has in serious problem with population. As the birthrate declines, the declining birthrate and the aging of society progress and the population decline. This issue is huge problem for our 

life in future. 

 In recently, Japan has 1.43 birth rate which is one of the lowest country in the world. many people worry that population will decrease a lot and the Japan will destroy in future.

However there are curious research about economic in Singapore. Singapore is also one of the lowest birthrate in the world but according to Former prime minister of Singapore, he said  the population will continue increase in the future, and through economic growth people are expected to continue rich because of Singapore accept many immigrants.

So if Japan accept a lot of immigrants, the country will have a good future same as Singapore? From long time ago the immigration problems are taboo in Japan. Even the current prime minister when he became prime minister, he said that "we will not touch about migration policy!" As J-watch News mentions that 67.8% of people are disagree with migrants policy. Why people have negative opinion? some people said one of the reason is because of history. In the past, Japan had been implementing the isolation policy for 200 years since 1616's. Until now many old people have this mind.

The other reason why people don't want accept immigrants is people still believe that accepting immigrants = increasing the crime rate.since terrorism and international crimes are increasing all over the world, the people's eyes for immigrants are only getting strict.

On the other hand, there are many positive things about migration policy. From 2004 to 2013, the population of immigrants are increased about 260 thousand people but number of foreign crimes are decreased every year. The fact of accepting immigrants and people,s thoughts are different. If Japan start to accept many migrants we will able to keep the population more than 100 million people, and keeping huge population has good benefit for future. So if Japan accept many immigrants we can keep like 1950s.

As the immigrants population increases,we can create the good society such as high competitiveness and internationalization progresses.

In conclusion there some negative opinion about immigrants policy. However to make a good future, we need to change the negative to positive. Neither people nor the government need the ability to think about the future without being stuck to the stereotype. In my opinion, in addition to accepting immigration, the subsequent measures are most important such as employee measure, measure against crime and equalization. If Japan do step by step we will not have any problem in future.