In Japan, the word 'immigration' is not used in policymaking. The prime minister often says it's not immigration, it's guest workers.

Well it's what we want right? Not for those pesky foreigners to actually live here, just to come for a bit then please go home.

Japanese people see what's happening in places like Belgium, Paris. Cologne, and other "multicultural" enclaves, and they are saying, "We don't want that."

I dont blame them.

But I've noticed many more Muslims visiting and living here......

Immigration won't be a problem but allowing them living in ghettos and keeping distance with the locals will eventually give birth to extremism like what's happening in the UK and France.

Japanese authority knows this and doing the right thing. Few years ago I've heard dismantling such ghettos of Pakistani immigrants in Saitama which is a big relief.

@ jefflee being from one of the places mentioned in your post I get your point.

However as a new australian I can also honestly say that 'immigration' can work provided you choose who come to your country, how, for what reason etc. Govts must ensure they have the right balance of skilled/non skilled workers, refugees etc, ensure they have the infrastructures, tolls, jobs etc to welcome then integrate them. Also make sure that these ppl know what it means to move here and understand/agree with the core values of their new country. If you're a fiercely secular state like france or oz should you welcome integrists (of any faith) for whom religion dictates how they, and others around them, should live their life? Don't think so. Same for japan actually.

If you have all this then the term 'guest worker' makes no sense at all and is 100% counter productive. If you work, live, pay taxes etc in a country then you're more than just a guest worker. Find the term offensive actually.

"'immigration' can work provided you choose who come to your country, how, for what reason etc."

Yes, I agree. The problem is it gets more complicated than that. Family sponsorship, for example. Germany's Turkish guest workers were originally on 2 year contracts and visas, but so many broke the rules and also brought over family members that German govt had no choice to ignore its own laws, and had a full scale, unexpected problem on its hands. Today, Germany's Turks are an underclass, with considerably lower education and income levels, because they've formed rock-solid enclaves where German is rarely spoken, etc.

"....keeping distance with the locals will eventually give birth to extremism like what's happening in the UK and France."

One of the great myths. Radicalization in Europe cuts across all socio-economic classes. Rich, poor, middle class.

A number of Europe's most notorious extremists come from comfortable middle-class or higher backgrounds and with good education (which the state provided free, in many cases). That's why security authorities and other experts say there is basically nothing they can do about the crisis, except remain vigilant.

Correction

trainees they can only extend up to years and as for nurses 90% or more fails the and ends up leaving.

trainees, they can only extend up to three years and as for nurses 90% or more fails the national exam and ends up leaving.

Also Muslims are the not growing but as Japan is now accepting human resources from mainly Buddhist nations, Burma, Thailand (slowed), Vietnam (Christians also present), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese mainly), Cambodia (Small but growing fast), Mongolia.

Muslims are not growing, Japan is accepting human resources from mainly Buddhist nations, Burma, Thailand (slowed), Vietnam (Christians also present), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese mainly), Cambodia (Small but growing fast), Mongolia.

From south east Asia Nepal and Sri Lanka is the main source with Buddhists and Hindus coming in more than any other.

From South Asia Nepal and Sri Lanka is the main source with Buddhists and Hindus coming in more than any other.

That's all

Well Japan is certainly accepting most people from countries with Buddhist backgrounds.

Well you got that right

Also as you said Japan's Jnto have also slowed promoting tourism for Muslims compared to previous years but now they are focusing more on people from other South East Asian countries (Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines), China and Korea. However Japan slowed there promotion due to lack of demand not because of terrorism reasons as Japan targeted Muslim tourists from South East Asia where terrorism is not active.

@kurisupisu

Deportations of Muslims from Japan is in record number, mainly Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Indonesians. I live in Shinjuku and I got to say that I don't see any Muslim tourists like I did a year or 2 ago. Though I see a massive wave of Chinese.

Go see for your self an immigration detention center you'll see that most of the ones being deported are from South Asian and South East Asian countries.

New "guest workers", students or people on work visas comes primarily from Vietnam, China, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Nepal. People from these countries account for more than 85% of the increase in the total number of foreigners in 2015.

Japan saw a flood of immigrants at the start of last century in which a bad taste still lingers in the mouth. No way is Japan going to make the same mistake.

Absolutely agree with you JeffLee.

As always I find it so hypocritical that those who quickly condemn all Japanese for being racist xenophobes that refuse to allow immigration to their country, are the same people that then praise other countries that take extra precautions and measures to control their borders.