With the number of foreigners working in Japan increasing, the highest increases are being seen not in urban but in rural areas. Why do you think that is?

Fishing and farming industry can't find any locals willing to work in such dangerous jobs for a pittance?

Because despite what a lot of youtubers may think, living in the big city is not something to aspire towards. The countryside is the best place to be!

I went to some nice hotel in Awaji some wks ago.

Most of staff foreigners with good japanese and knowledge of japanese manners.

I spoke with guys from Myanmar why they moved from Osaka to Awaji?

Main points-almost same cash on hand/hospitality salaries are at bottom end in Japan/,cheaper living costs/hotel provides accomodation for free nearby and guys are paying for water,electricty,gas bills only/.So at the end of day they can save more there and send more money back home.If they have stayed in Osaka they could not do.

The countryside is the best place to be!

If you can make a living, it surely is.

Don't tell too many city people though, they all think they know what the countryside needs and end up ruining it.

Because a lot of people in the rest of the world don’t view being lost in the steaming heard and living in a concrete conurbation as the norm.

I suppose it is because there are jobs that need to be filled. Agriculture, fishing, ryokan and other industries in rural areas are desperate for people.

Lots of manual labor in the countryside. Japanese want office jobs, foreigners want stability with work life balance. Factories and farming facilities have these vacancies that need to be filled. The areas outside the city here in middle Japan feel like I entered Brazil or Nepal. But at the same time it’s kept the countryside towns thriving. Somehow there are more chain restaurants and shopping mall convenience in a town of a few thousand than the city of 400,000 I live in.

Because most of the young move away from the countryside to the big cities. Generalizing a little here but there are mostly the elderly left in the countryside. They desperately need foreign labor.

Rural areas depopulating by far the fastest, and many of their industries are labor intensive, especially agriculture and fishing come to mind, along with tourism.

Much lower cost of living is one thing. Another being that it's quite pretty out here, less crowded and easier to make personal connections. Also, many foreigners aren't mesmorized by the tired old chant of "tokai ha benri desu."

With the number of foreigners working in Japan increasing, the highest increases are being seen not in urban but in rural areas.

Who are they European? American? Or just foreign cheap labor from Vietnam and China?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1120051/japan-number-foreign-technical-interns/

Few non-Asian immigrants to Japan, based on the numbers, but these traditional sources of immigrants to Japan are seeing their countries income per capita rise while Japan steadily falls, so who's to say it continues...

Rural areas tend to have more labor intensive less highly skilled work available than urban areas.

Lots of work, labor shortages, cheaper rent and easier to adapt because the lifestyle is not as high paced and complex compared to the big cities. Healthier too!

Welcome!

Lots of work, labor shortages, cheaper rent and easier to adapt because the lifestyle is not as high paced and complex compared to the big cities. Healthier too!

This sums it up quite well Ricky.

I have lived for the past nine years in the country side in Oku Noto in Ishikawa prefecture with my wife who is Japanese and our children. We own a home here. For us it was our life choice. We survived the January 1st Earthquake and we would not ever think of leaving here because we both can not stand living in the urban areas of Japan. Too hot in the summer and too many people.For work I have a writing business and my wife helps out the victiams of the Janauary 1st Earthquake. I n my free time I also volunteer a; a driver for people who live in temporary housing and take them to the town hall and the supermarket its a free servrce so I'm happy doing it on my free trme when I'm not writing.

"Goin to the country, gunna eat a lot of peaches "...song sums up my feelings

Mostly likely due to rural areas needing "hands-on" help, not intellectual.