Anti-immigration backlash finally comes to Japan

Anti-immigration backlash finally comes to Japan

We often talk about ways in which Japan is ahead of other developed nations; in the old days, people said this about technology, while more recently it’s

The anti-immigration backlash comes to Japan

Photo by Mottinn via Wikimedia CommonsWe often talk about ways in which Japan is ahead of other developed nations; in the old days, people said this about technology, while more recently it’s usually about social trends like sexless youth. But when I lived there, I often noted ways in which Japan was behind the U.S. Trends in fashion, music, and culture seemed to get popular in Japan about five to ten years after their heyday in America.1For a l…