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Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by soco »

rtpg wrote: post #86
Tade0 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also the issue of people going to Japan to buy out several properties to then rent them out.

I don't believe there are residency requirements to ownership so the people doing that do not need to go through this flow at all. Just an entirely separate issue, though it might be tackled. I do have the impression Tokyo is getting similar dynamics to the rest of the world on this front: builders don't care where the money is coming from and so if money from outside the country can get buildings built they're happy…

But if it's empty then it's not rented out, so why the whole exercise? Park their money?

Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by pjjpo »

soco wrote: post #131
rtpg wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe there are residency requirements to ownership so the people doing that do not need to go through this flow at all. Just an entirely separate issue, though it might be tackled. I do have the impression Tokyo is getting similar dynamics to the rest of the world on this front: builders don't care where the money is coming from and so if money from outside the country can get buildings built they're happy…

But if it's empty then it's not rented out, so why the whole exercise? Park their money?

I don't know how verifiable it is, but the general narrative has been a lot is Chinese parking their money outside the reach of the CCP. I've never quite understood the mechanics of this though.

Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by pjjpo »

0x3f wrote: post #45
Tade0 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also the issue of people going to Japan to buy out several properties to then rent them out.

There are no residence requirements for buying property in Japan. So... what?

Unlike banks, many services, some Rakuten subpages, etc requiring full width, I have found real estate sites (purchase, not rent) to be the most likely to accept half-width roman characters for the name input box.

Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by pjjpo »

hogehoge51 wrote: post #102
laurieg wrote: post #88

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Relatively small clerical errors causing people to get permanent residency applications denied is becoming a trope. The ones I have heard: - Client company address changed 4 years ago and the paperwork wasn't filed within 2 weeks. - A late pension payment 2 years ago. - Pension and health insurance were paid on time, but the date stamp on the physical payment slips was smudged and so "did not prove" that it was paid…

Unfortunately, tbis may be the simplest and most cost effective way to clear the backlog. It's unfortunately for people who in good faith made honest mistakes or were victims of honest mistakes. But it also may be a low cost way to filter out bad faith applicants who were never planning to pay pensions/taxes fully. An assymeytry of information means we never see the balance of honest mistake vs dodgy excuse makers...…

Is it just me or is 1 year excessively short for qualifying for PR? I'm a bit unsurprised that it results in less leniency in applications, there are probably just too many applications because the thresholds have gone down (not saying salary education etc requirements are trivial, but a far cry from the old wait 10 years).

Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by rayiner »

platinumrad wrote: post #123
rayiner wrote: post #119

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Your idea of “racism” arose in a western historical context and simply has no application to Japan. Japan didn’t bring a bunch of people to their country by force and then enslave them and deny them political rights for hundreds of years. Nation-states not only exist, the UN recognizes their existence as a human right in the The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The UN recognizes a right of “peopl…

Non-Japanese people don't be weird about Japan challenge (difficulty: impossible)

“Don’t think the whole world is America challenge” (difficulty: impossible)

Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by rtpg »

soco wrote: post #131
rtpg wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe there are residency requirements to ownership so the people doing that do not need to go through this flow at all. Just an entirely separate issue, though it might be tackled. I do have the impression Tokyo is getting similar dynamics to the rest of the world on this front: builders don't care where the money is coming from and so if money from outside the country can get buildings built they're happy…

But if it's empty then it's not rented out, so why the whole exercise? Park their money?

Apparently they’re listed but people aren’t biting? Though this was a while back so maybe things have changed

Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by garbawarb »

dudeinjapan wrote: post #34
lamasery wrote: post #5

Key detail: > Immigration authorities say the move is aimed at preventing cases in which foreign workers obtain visas under one category, but then engage in unrelated or lower-skilled work. The claim appears to be that people were using up visa slots for things like interpreters or other jobs where clearly you'd need good language skills to actually do the job, including in Japanese, with the intent all along of doin…

Company founder in Japan here. This is largely how I read this specific news--its narrowly scoped to prevent patterns of abuse, which there have indeed been isolated cases tantamount to human trafficking. That being said, there is a broader trend, that Japan's immigration authorities are becoming more foreigner-hostile, reflecting a broader political view shift in Japanese society (see: Sanseito political party) and…

Are you Japanese? What was your motivation behind founding in Japan?

Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by onetokeoverthe »

10xDev wrote: post #40
indoordin0saur wrote: post #22

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Went there in 2012 and then again last year. It's wild how quickly it's changed. IMO, Japan is a very special place and it's sad to see that it's having the same problems as the rest of the first world.

The worst I saw was a flood of American tourists in Shinjuku. What did you see that changed?

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Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by red-iron-pine »

soco wrote: post #131
rtpg wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't believe there are residency requirements to ownership so the people doing that do not need to go through this flow at all. Just an entirely separate issue, though it might be tackled. I do have the impression Tokyo is getting similar dynamics to the rest of the world on this front: builders don't care where the money is coming from and so if money from outside the country can get buildings built they're happy…

But if it's empty then it's not rented out, so why the whole exercise? Park their money?

basically, yes.

the chinese government owns all land and all banks. they snap their fingers and you have nothing.

you put it into japanese, usa, canadian housing, etc. etc. under a company flagged in bermuda and you're covered.

Re: Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

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Post by red-iron-pine »

Starman_Jones wrote: post #104
esseph wrote: post #90

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It's not the Department of War, either. Still says that everywhere.

Talk is cheap.

the US Dept of War is doing far more than just talk tho.

see also: half of the middle east on fire.

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