05-17-2024, 07:28 PM
(05-17-2024, 10:43 AM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: wasn't that stat we looked at based on refugee applicants only?
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/10/2f5fe6c44464-refugee-applicants-to-japan-surge-in-2023-may-reach-record-high.html
Record number of applicants in 2023:
The current record high is 19,629 applicants, according to government data. The figure topped 11,000 from January through September this year, partly due to Japan's complete lifting of its COVID-19 pandemic border restrictions in April, the sources said.
Overall for 2023 they accepted a total 303 lol whew records being smashed!
But for work visa's, they approved about 1.3m in 2022. So they do let people in.
There is a difference between what the government does and what the sentiment is that is reflected in polls, though.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
