No. of foreign workers in Japan totals record 1.66 million

Good for them, sounds like a win-win situation.

We're all in it together!

All these numbers are great and all but how many are actually employed much less high paying jobs, and we all know Ghosn is not one of the 1.66 million at least anymore.

How many of those 1.66 million expect to retire in Japan and receive a monthly pension?

expatToday 12:34 pm JST

Starting to look like the Gulf...

Or Singapore

Or Singapore

The number of foreign workers in Singapore is 40% of the population.

The number of foreign workers in Japan is 2% of the population.

The numbers speak for themselves.

"...improved employment conditions", I needed a laugh today!

1,658,804 as of October last year - with 1,658,000 being jobs that no Japanese person wants to do. Japanese companies utterly refuse to hire anyone with professional experience but low level of Japanese EVEN WHEN the companies do 50% or more of international business where the Japanese employees have little to no experience and terrible foreign language skills.

We cannot vote. Just pay taxes, follow the rules and do what you are told.

Some cities allow foreign nationals to vote in local elections.

I am a Japanese citizen with permanent residency rights in Britain. I pay taxes but I have no vote at any level of government.

Permanent residency in the US does not give you a vote but you get to pay taxes even if you have no US income.

Nothing particularly notable about Japan in terms of what (permanent) residency gets you.

Japanese companies utterly refuse to hire anyone with professional experience but low level of Japanese 

Some large Japanese companies have so many such employees that they have made English the language for corporate meetings even in Japan. Some large Japanese companies even have CEOs with no significant Japanese language skills.

Small businesses cannot afford the luxury of people who are functionally illiterate in Japanese. They hire foreign graduates of Japanese universities who often have near native level Japanese, fluent English, and one or more languages from their home countries.