i was in japan twice for business and i could see plenty of foreigners working in low end jobs like at lawson or 7/11, as truck drivers, kitchen staff, and other forms of low-end manual labor, particularly the type that doesn't have to interact with customers or clients. it seemed like indians/brown asians were the equivalent of kitchen mexicans/squatamalans in the us.  this leads me to believe that the "muh foreigners are only 2% of japan's population" meme is off base, in the same way that the us has far more than 15-20 million illegals. sure, there is no way to hop a border into japan, but i've done enough business in japan to know how secretly corrupt it is. i'm sure there are tons of illegals there that sneak in with fake paperwork at the behest of greedy boomer companies.
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