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04/24/2009: "Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home"

The government will pay thousands of dollars to fly Mrs. Yamaoka; her husband, who is a Brazilian citizen of Japanese descent; and their family back to Brazil. But in exchange, Mrs. Yamaoka and her husband must agree never to seek to work in Japan again.

"We should stop letting unskilled laborers into Japan. We should make sure that even the three-K jobs are paid well, and that they are filled by Japanese," he said. "I do not think that Japan should ever become a multiethnic society."

He said the United States had been "a failure on the immigration front," and cited extreme income inequalities between rich Americans and poor immigrants.

[ This should throw doubt on speculation that Japan's aging population crisis will lead to an open-door policy towards immigrants from anywhere in the world. They aren't even interested in bringing back their ex-pats! So why are European nations forced to fill up with foreigners? ]

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/106964/Japan-Pays-Foreign-Workers-to-Go-Home