Japan Opens To Diversity, Mass Immigration, Or Does It?

One of the criticisms of Westerners of the Japanese is what is often called dishonesty, or more bluntly, lying. Lying is a complicated topic in Japanese society. In Japan it is generally discouraged to give one’s blunt opinions of something. In some ways it is an effort to maintain a harmonious society, in some ways not being singled out for societal displeasure, in some ways meant not to offend with a negative answer; the phenomenon is referred to in Japanese society as omote-ura or honne-tatemae. It can also be a tactic of self-preservation or survival tool in the wider world, the corporate environment, school, and even in the family. The Japanese, of course, understand this phenomenon in their own society and take it into account.

The opening of Japan in the late 19th century resulted in a general misunderstanding between Westerners and Japanese, and though obviously not with other Asians; Koreans and Chinese, who have similar practices and generally looser relationships with the truth. Lying has until recently been condemned in the West under the influence of Christianity. Hiding truths is not an aspect of Christianity, especially when one’s immortal soul is at stake.

Now, the Chinese have long used deception, misdirection, and lying to manage barbarians, and to manage their peasants, bandits, and merchants. The mandarins and the Throne knew they were the source of power and control in China, but knew they had to manage their subjects. Truth was never really part of that management program, though competence was necessary for the Mandate of Heaven. The Japanese are heavily influenced by Chinese culture. Neo-Confucianism was the official ideology of the Tokugawa Shogunate, but with Japanese characteristics, as Mao said of Communism. Early on, the Japanese, when they realized how weak they were before the engines of Western industrialization in the late 19th century, had to use their own method of managing the barbarians. One of these was a public face for the barbarian to see, and a hidden true feeling, and consequent actions that reflect the true feeling rather than the publicly expressed opinion.

Whatever the relationship between the West and Japan was in the far past, currently truthfulness is of little import in the West. The West even denies biological reality and diplomacy is the literal practice of lying, so there is little room for criticism of Japan and the Japanese for their relationship with the truth, especially over the late unpleasantness in the 40s.

Objective denial of reality is now de rigueur in the West. Whether it be that one can change one’s sex or that diversity is strength, we in the West now live in an objective denial of reality, much less Revealed Truth. So the flexible relationship the Japanese have with public expressions of their true feelings or how that manifests itself in public or international behavior is of no concern of mine.

That brings us to the relationship in Japan with diversity; and, importantly, the public face of their view of diversity for consumption by the West, and the Jewish power behind the West, and their true feeling about the gaijin, especially non-Whites and non-East Asians, i.e. blacks and South Asians. Generally the Japanese see East Asians as racial cousins and Whites as prestigious.

The only question we really must address, is what are the Japanese up to in a certain disturbing announcement from Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi. An announcement that may either result in the mogrelification of Japan or may be a tactic to avoid attack by China Joe and his masters, who are not Chinese. (h/t Author W. R. Flynn)

The Japanese foreign minister has announced a plan to “transform Japan into a diversified multiethnic society” by encouraging mass immigration and giving foreign residents the right to vote.

Toshimitsu Motegi is a politician for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and has served as the country’s Minister for Foreign Affairs since September 2019.

During a Q and A session, Motegi said his “national vision” meant “transforming Japan in the 21st century into a “diversified multiethnic society” by way of mass immigration from all over the world.

This would also be achieved by codifying English as the country’s second language and giving “suffrage to resident foreigners.”

Japan is 98.1 per cent ethnically Japanese, with the next most populous ethnicity being Chinese at just 0.5 per cent.

[Japanese Foreign Minister Announces Plan to “Transform Japan Into a Diverse Multiethnic Society,” by Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News, November 25, 2021]

Shocking as it is, this is even beyond absurd. Japan has a population problem, but that can be solved by natalist policies that are working in Russia, Poland, and Hungary. However, one understands that Japan is also a target of the nation-busting Jewish groups that, in fact, hate the diversity that Japan represents, a racially based ethno-state. [Federale In Japan: It Works—And It Could Work In The U.S. Too, by Federale, VDare, October 30, 2013]

For us, what we need to know is Motegi speaking honne, truly held feeling, or tatemae, something said for the public consumption of the dangerous ideologs in the West who may make war on Japan for not being diverse? Remember, diversity is not only tracking down and killing the last White man, but also the Last Samurai.

Perhaps we can find the answer in the true attitude to diversity as expressed in Japanese nationality law, Japan’s foreign students, and the Japanese attitude to English.

Let us compare Japan’s system of teaching English to that of Europe’s. Most Americans know that many Europeans speak fluent English, most know the French don’t like English, and few know that English proficiency is widespread in the former captive nations of Eastern Europe. Japan, one of wealthiest industrialized nations ranks far behind Western Europeans, in English proficiency, even the notoriously Anglophobic French. But Japan even lags far behind many Third World counties, and I don’t mean only those in either the English or American colonial spheres like India and the Philippines.

One of the reasons though is that most Japanese don’t need much English. Small nations like the Netherlands or the Scandinavian countries need English as a skill set to survive economically in the European Union and the wider world. Japan, with a much larger population than almost any European country, has little need for English. English is prestigious in Japan, but not a necessity. No blue collar worker really needs it, even in the tourism industry. Having traveled throughout Japan as a tourist, only major Western brand hotels in the three major cities, Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, have employees who speak English to any degree. In other cities or in Japanese brand hotels, much less the traditional hotels, ryokan, English was unknown. Even in other industries for Japanese companies with an international customer base, English while necessary, is not an imperative. Most such companies rely on a small cadre who speak English well and serve as translators, rather than as the business point-man.

Basically, while the Japanese government invests much money in teaching English starting in elementary school, it is ineffective, and perhaps deliberately so. Watch this video on English teaching in Japan. The major complaint is that it is ineffective. If the Japanese government thought English was so important, it would likely do better. Not saying that the Japanese government is 100% efficient, but when it sees a real problem, it deals with it. Despite public pronouncements, I believe that the real feeling about the importance of English is that it is not an imperative. Japanese leaders believe that social cohesion and prosperity for the widest range of their fellow citizens is important. Consequently policies reflect that. English proficiency may be tatemae, only for public consumption by the diversity obsessed in the West and certain groups ensconced in the major Japanese press.

Similarly, Japan announced a few years ago a policy of more foreign students in their universities. Why? One does not know. Japanese is an incredibly difficult language to learn and there are few languages closely related, unlike the Latin languages of Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, or a language like English which has adopted much foreign vocabulary from French and the Germanic languages. Learning Japanese is more for specialists or those with an affinity for Japanese culture. It is not for business, technology, military, sciences, or international commerce. English is the language of those areas of endeavor. If you’re interested in samurai, bonsai, anime, Buddhist philosophy, or woodblock printing, Japanese is for you. Otherwise, it is for the Japanese.

Last month, it surfaced that 700 foreign students at Tokyo University of Social Welfare who were supposed to be studying Japanese in preparation for becoming undergraduates at the same university had gone missing, with their whereabouts still unknown. Since the normal procedure is to expel such students and nullify their student visas, they must be staying somewhere in this country as illegal workers.

This incident is only the tip of an iceberg. Virtually all of about 90,000 foreign students registered at 749 Japanese-language schools across the country are working at places like convenience stores, lodging facilities, bars and restaurants, and construction sites. The primary purpose of their enrollment with such schools is not to study Japanese but to work and earn money. It is believed that virtually none of them are interested in advancing to institutions of higher education after studying the language.

[Foreign Student Numbers Don’t Tell Whole Tale, by Takamitsu Sawa, The Japan Times, April 12, 2019]

The Japanese half-assed a program to enroll foreigners in their university system when Japanese Universities are not attractive to foreigners other than for the Nipponophile. Who would go to study sociology in Japan? Now Chiang Kai-shek studied in Japan, but that was 100 years ago when China was behind Japan in industrialization and modern militarization. But now? Unlikely that anyone other than the Nipponophile would study anything in Japan. You can learn anime there, but not much else. In any event, to protect the Japanese people and a harmonious society from the China Flu, Japan is once again closing to foreigners. Shades of the Tokugawa policy of sakoku, the closure of Japan to foreigners?

It can be concluded that this program is not a reflection of the real Japanese attitude, but the obsession of a foreign educated cohort at the major Japanese newspapers who think themselves worldly liberals, though toadying the Jewish line on the god of diversity. So, the Japanese elite placate the scribblers in the major Japanese press by creating a program they know will fail to appease the diversity mongers in power in the outside world. Tatemae again one hopes.

But the real good news is that a Japanese court has complied with the Japanese Constitution and, more importantly, the national consciousness of the Japanese people instead of the internationalist ideology of the deracinated. Instead of imposing internationalist values on Japan, it ruled that dual citizenship remains illegal in Japan! Sonno Jo I!

The Tokyo District Court ruled Thursday that the country’s nationality law, which forbids citizens from holding multiple nationalities, is constitutional, in a judicial decision believed to be the first concerning the regulation.

In a lawsuit filed with the court, eight men and women in their 30s to 80s, who were born in Japan but now live in Europe, claimed the law’s stipulation that Japanese citizens must give up their nationality upon obtaining a foreign nationality violates the Constitution.

[Tokyo Court Backs Ban On Japanese Holding Dual Nationality, unattributed, The Japan Times, January 21, 2021]

Note the stress on maintaining a harmonious society and implicit racial unity, instead of individual interest and proclivity.

But the government argued the plaintiffs’ claim took no note of national interest, and that permitting multiple citizenship would allow people to have voting rights or diplomatic protection in other countries.

Dual citizenship “could cause conflict in the rights and obligations between countries, as well as between the individual and the state,” said Presiding Judge Hideaki Mori.

In a very un-Japanese claim, a Japanese overseas complained about individual feelings being more important than ethno-national unity and social harmony.

“The court did not seriously consider the feelings of Japanese living abroad,” Swiss resident Hitoshi Nogawa, 77, who led the plaintiffs, said following the ruling.

One can say with certainty, Nogawa is no longer Japanese and has absorbed the poisonous ideology of diversity and individualism. The court has spoke for the Japanese, and has spoken honne.

With that, one hopes that Foreign Minister Motegi is not speaking his true feeling, and is acting publicly, omote, so as for Japan to not to be the further target of the internationalists.

Time will tell. Other Japanese leaders understand that diversity is bad.