Nipponica

In Japan, which is made up of just 2.66% foreign nationals, there is no such named conceit for the Japanese people or for the foreign population.

Still, just because there’s no recognizable “Japanese dream” doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And as is increasingly apparent, the country needs a considerable increase in skills and talent from abroad to address its depopulation problem.

This is a great essay about the stories of some recent immigrants to Japan and how they chose coming here best choice for their future. The Japanese Dream is real but can be difficult to achieve unless you really work hard to integrate, compromise, and understand that it is a give-and-take process. Japan needs a part of you before it will take you in.

A Mexican man was found to have landed on one of the Senkaku Islands in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Friday, after apparently drifting in a canoe, the Japan Coast Guard said.

The man was picked up by a helicopter and taken to a hospital in the prefecture. He was quoted as saying that he had been drifted after leaving Yonaguni, Japan’s westernmost island, by canoe.

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