Friday, February 18, 2011

upfront - What ever happened to Japan?

Would relaxing Japan's restrictive immigration policies help the nation make an economic comeback?

4 comments:

  1. I think that relaxing Japan's immigration policies might be a good idea since their workforce is shrinking as the time goes on. It leads to fresh employees that want to work in a new place and move up in the world, leading to Japan being back into the lush economy it once was. But after being so closed off to people overseas, there might be some tension with some of the Japanese that might not accept the lax terms and act out.

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  2. Japan has became one of the worlds elite economical standing country. In the past 20 years however Japan has experienced great struggling and deflation. The life expencancy in Japan is 83 and the birth rate is about 1.4. The unemployment rate in Japan is low at about 4%. Lately the Japanese young generation of 18 to 22 year olds have been less driven than others. Japan is still a prosperous society in autos, machine tools and flat panel dislpays. China has overtaken Japan as the # 2 economy and people predict that will hold until 2050. All major powerhouses have experienced this downfall and people are confident that Japan ill rise to power again soon enough.

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  3. After WWII, Japan's economy boomed and from 1950 to 1990, it became one of the first Asian countries to challenge the west. It grew ahead of other countries in technology, it was a great time period. But now that it's economy is going down, people are losing jobs, have less payment, and students graduating from college aren't having job opportunities. So as Japan's economy is decreasing, China's is increasing and taking Japan's spot.

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  4. Joseph
    Japan was once regarded as the one of the most elite booming economies their is. However, as of lately its economy has under gone severe deflation, which means a harsh impact on its economy. I think relaxing Japan's strict immigration laws might help revive and bring back Japan's econmy from its ongoing struggle. Relaxing their strict immigration policies would definately bring in more people to help the workforce, create enough revenue and ultimately provide enouh cash flow to stabalize its economy.

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