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00:00This is a story about the two-way street of immigration.
00:04The United States is known as a melting pot created by waves of immigrants.
00:08But while the U.S. turns away from foreign workers,
00:11it turns out that Japan, historically much more homogeneous,
00:15has its own version of growth through immigration.
00:18Our colleague Sherry Ahn reports that making it work
00:21requires both the immigrants and the natives to make some adjustments.
00:24At Foxtown's supermarket, shoppers can find everything
00:31from Brazilian coffee to delicacies like piranha.
00:35But this is not a store in Sao Paulo.
00:37This is Homidanchi in Aichi Prefecture in Japan.
00:42Bloomberg's Yoshinohara has been reporting on this unlikely melting pot.
00:47It's only still a couple of percentage of the total population.
00:51It's not big.
00:52But here's the point.
00:53It's such an aging society here and population shrinking.
00:58And people coming in tend to be young, much younger than most Japanese people.
01:03So in other words, these people are more visible.
01:06They bump into these people, you know, on trains or, you know, going somewhere.
01:12And they notice that these people are not just working in factories,
01:16but also serving you face-to-face at convenience stores or restaurants.
01:21So they become more visible.
01:23So as they experience some kind of uncomfortable moments,
01:28they started thinking, whoa, is this Japan that I know?
01:33The diversity that surprises the rest of us doesn't surprise the residents of a city called Toyota,
01:39named after the automaker because of its presence in the city since the 1950s.
01:45Most of them don't work for Toyota itself.
01:48They work for smaller companies that supply for Toyota.
01:53And the experience has been, I would say, that it's painful.
01:57There's a housing complex still hosting many Brazilians.
02:01It's isolation that the systematic shortfalls caused for these people.
02:07But at the same time, I see some hopes among newcomers.
02:11Nguyen Dinh Viet and his wife represent the promise of immigration in Japan
02:16and what success could look like, limited as it is.
02:20Din Viet is a mechanic who is a mechanical engineer,
02:22which is ŅŅОйŅ to make a baby-to-de-do-do-do.
02:23They actually learn how to make a baby-to-do-do.
02:24They just want to make a baby-to-do.
02:25I've been in and in and and you're in and out.
02:26It's difficult for you to bring a baby-to-do.
02:31I think I was a multitudinal way to enjoy Canada,
02:32but in the sense that the business is a pretty good country.
02:33I go to Vietnam and became a family and I became a baby-to-do.
02:39Dinh Viet is a mechanical engineer with a Toyota supplier,
02:52and his wife, Ti Nguyen, supports foreign workers in Toyota City.
02:56Since moving to Japan from Vietnam in 2007,
03:00the Nguyen's have planted their roots,
03:02buying a home and raising a family in Toyota City.
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03:36Toyota City is a symptom of Japan's demographics issue.
03:54In 2024, Japan's population declined by more than 900,000 people,
04:00marking the 16th consecutive year of contraction.
04:03At the same time, the number of people aged 65 and over is increasing,
04:09leaving employers with fewer working-age individuals.
04:27Yuki Hashimoto is a senior fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry,
04:33which sits within Japan's economy ministry.
04:36The government has turned to foreign workers to ease the labor shortage.
04:40Yuki Hashimoto is a member of the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
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05:29Over the years, the foreign worker program has become essential for the Japanese economy.
05:34In reality, it's been used as a backdoor for Japan to secure cheap workers.
05:42It's all about money, to be honest.
05:45And there's been a lot of criticism because, you know, the program does not allow people to come with their family members.
05:54And there also, there has been cases being reported that these trainees, you know, their passports have been taken away from them so that they don't run away.
06:05And the U.S. State Department once criticized that this program, you know, is allowing some workers to experience forced labor conditions, which is such a strong term.
06:17But, you know, it's been around because, you know, once, as I said, Japan needs these people.
06:26And it's been a kind of addiction among small companies using this program because they cannot find cheaper workers anywhere else in Japan.
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06:51Morihiro Masada is the CEO of IBIS, a company that connects foreign workers with jobs that need to be filled.
06:58He first saw the opportunity after meeting with foreign workers while organizing futsal matches.
07:04I've been working for the World Cup for 11 years.
07:11I've been working for the World Cup for 11 years, but I've been working for a lot of people in Japan with a lot of people who live in Japan with a lot of people who live in Japan.
07:18The need is especially dire for some industries.
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08:52These days, the share of foreign workers in Japan is at a record high, making up 3% of the population with 3.8 million immigrants.
09:02It's still a far cry from the 15% of the population the foreigners comprise in the United States.
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10:10For workers, the low rate of immigration leads to friction on both sides.
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10:29With the rise of the Nationalist Party, Sanseito, resentment towards foreigners in Japan has grown,
10:36leaving the ruling Liberal Democratic Party with the difficult task of managing the tensions.
10:42People will feel like, oh, this is not Japan. Is this some other country?
10:47So there is a concern over the Japanese people with too much, you know, concentration of the foreign people in certain areas.
10:56Ahead of the July national election, there was a party called Sanseito.
11:03Upstart right-wing party is running this campaign with the slogans like
11:09Japanese first and don't break Japan any farther.
11:13Those messages resonated a lot, especially online.
11:19But Masada says that as important as it is for foreigners to adjust to the Japanese way of life,
11:24it has to be a two-way street.
11:27It's just as important for Japanese people to learn to live and work with new cultures.
11:33I think it's the same person.
11:37I'm the same person.
11:39I think it's the same person as a foreign man and a Japanese man.
11:42But I think that in Japan, there's a lot of different culture in Japan.
11:47There's a lot of different culture on Japan, so I think there's a lot of different things.
11:51I think it's hard to introduce them to them.
11:54The role of the people who live in Japan and the culture are very important.
12:00But, what I'll do is make this situation
12:20for many of us to look at the same age,
12:25For the Nguyen's, the period of adjustment was worth it.
12:49Japan is now home.
12:55Japan is now home.
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