I know many fellow "lifers" who won't be inconvenienced by these changes but worry about the direction of travel. Restricting foreign residents' access to health and social welfare systems, for example, remains a fringe proposal for now - but the slope definitely looks more slippery than it used to.

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These rises will disproportionately impact lower income migrants. People in fields like tech or finance can afford the fees, and employers may cover the costs for many of them. But this will be a hammer blow for fields like agriculture and construction, which are deeply reliant on migrant workers.

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Aside from the obvious populist scapegoating, a striking thing about the government’s stance here is how utterly incoherent it is with the past decade of LDP policy - including that of Takaichi’s icon Abe, who squarely aimed migration policy at shoring up the country’s dwindling workforce.

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gym time is me time!

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LOOKING RESPECTFULLY 🤤

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