Open borders is modern slavery

The Japanese government has been promoting open borders that allow employers to mercilessly exploit migrant workers – they have been working in appalling conditions

It seems to be thought that Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is a nationalist (and he is against open borders), mainly because Mr Abe wants to reform the Japanese Constitution which prohibits the country from having its military forces & going to war with other countries.

Simon Tisdall, a foreign editor for the Guardian, described Mr Abe as Japan’s pugnaciously conservative prime minister. The BBC used the phrase ‘a avowed nationalist’ and ‘a right wing nationalist’ to describe Mr Abe.

Also, the fact that Japan has taken in few refugees strengthens the claim that he is a right-wing nationalist.

However, Mr Abe is not a nationalist but a globalist as he has pushed open borders and prioritised multinational corporations over the Japanese people.

Daily Telegraph reported that :

Mr Abe announced plans to increase the number of workers from abroad but did not give a figure. However, between 260,000 and 340,000 could arrive over five years from 2019, Kyodo News reported. It would be a dramatic shift in immigration policy for Japan. Mr Abe plans an amendment to immigration law which would include a new visa for foreign workers with “specified skills.” It could mean up to 47,000 arriving in 2019, if the amendment passes the Japanese parliament next month.

The Citizen (tz) reports:

Now premier Shinzo Abe’s government wants to open the door to foreign blue-collar workers as early as next April, granting visas for up to five years to those employed in industries facing chronic shortages such as agriculture, nursing and construction.

And in fact, Mr Abe’s government pushed through the bill which liberalised the country’s immigration law; under Abe’s government, Japan has already admitted many migrants.

Despite its reputation as closed, in 2016 Japan ranked fourth among OECD countries on the inflow of foreign residents, behind only Germany, the United States and Britain.

This year, the number of foreign residents hit 2.63 million, two percent of the population, and nearly double the figure a decade ago.

Mr Abe told the Japanese parliament:

“Barring a significant change in circumstances we won’t accept workers beyond these levels. “Unless circumstances drastically change we won’t accept more workers than shown by the estimated figure. In that sense it’s a cap.” Next year Japanese businesses are set to have 600,000 fewer workers than necessary. Over the next five years the shortage could reach more than 1.3 million, according to estimates. The number of foreign workers in Japan has already been rising, especially in heavy industries like manufacturing and construction, in recent years.

The Japanese mainstream media claim that Japan needs to admit more foreign workers to offset its declining work force. The MSM together with the Japanese civil service have pushed their globalist agenda; they are just government propaganda. They are deluded into thinking that everybody can benefit from the implementation of globalist policies.

Obviously, it is not racist to express concern that open borders would lead to jump in crime, and place too much strain on the social security system. (The rich can fix these problems by paying money, while ordinary people can not do.)

In addition, from an economic standpoint, globalism hurts ordinary people especially low-paid workers. A basic supply & demand argument suggests that oversupply of migrant workers bring down wages, because multinationals can exploit migrants so as to cut their production costs & maximise their profits. On rare occasions, the Washington Post tells the truth about globalism, reporting:

Twenty-seven-year-old War Nu left her village in central Myanmar at the end of last year bound for Japan. … She ended up simply packing garments into cardboard boxes from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. or midnight, six or even seven days a week. The basic pay, the equivalent of just $530 a month, was half what she had been promised, while her boss didn’t stop shouting at her. … Working at a company called King Style, War Nu said she was treated more like a slave than a trainee by her boss. … With the help of Myint Swe and JAM – the Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery, and Manufacturing Workers, an influential labor union – War Nu was able to leave her employer and keep her visa, finding work in a different garment factory in Gifu where conditions are much better, and where she and her friends are much happier.

The Japanese companies which have taken advantage of the program to exploit the migrant workers living in Japan are clearly in breach of human rights law. It is horrifying to see that they are doing exactly the same thing as the Volkswagen (& other German manufacturers) did during the WWII.