Professor Takakazu Yamagishi, director of Nanzan University's Center for International Affairs in Nagoya, warning that Japan has a long road ahead to regain foreign students' trust after a 2-year entry ban.
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There needs to be a concerted effort to restore Japan's image and lure back all the international talent that has been lost.
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Aly Rustom
Forget it. Its done. Its over. Plus what's going to happen when the next variant pops up? It'll happen all over again.
gaijintraveller
Well on the way with the skilled worker visa. I forget when it started but it seems to be a step in the right direction. One Chinese person has been given one.
As Chairman Mao said, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
purple_depressed_bacon
Pfft. Yeah, no. The pandemic has revealed Japan's true colors when it comes to how they regard and treat foreign residents, students etc. Their reputation is forever tainted; no going back now. Many people will be thinking twice before coming here for work, studies, or to make a life.
Aly Rustom
best post I have read in a LOOONNG TIME! Well said blue!
divinda
Mao?! That was Lao Tzu, 2000 years ago.
borscht
Yes, Japan’s Image has to be restored, not the actual facts of Japan, its image ie. Tatemae.
”International talent” (aka Students) has seen the True side of Japan and it isn’t pretty.
TrevorPeace
Good luck on that. Pfft!
Sven Asai
Already that logic or conclusion fallacy that luring back more international students is related or leads also to having more real talents afterwards is completely false.
smithinjapan
That horse's bones are already bleaching out in the sun somewhere far away, so no point bolting the barn door now.
Nah, they'll never change. Kishida just warned the other day about letting in more foreign people because a new variant is popping up -- like that found in the Japanese woman returning from her stay in the US (where she was allowed to enter).
Japan can lament the loss all they like and bemoan that it continues, but it is 100% their own fault, and they have been warned it would happen for the entire time. I know things often work here at the pace of a dead snail (eventually it liquifies and that liquid might move forward), but once again we see the result of it -- shoulder shrugs and laments about the situation, but zero attempt to actually change it.
bass4funk
For that to EVER happen, Japan needs to change and change a lot of things and Japan is just not willing to make itself more internationally accessible, for one thing, starting from the basics of 2nd language, the Japanese don't even take English seriously and are not interested in it and it's not taught the way it should be taught so that more Japanese can make themselves more attractive as a vacation destination and as a nation that increasingly needs the outside world. Robots can't and won't be able to substitute real human interaction and as long as Japan is not willing to make quick and serious changes then this country is on a time clock away of becoming a second world nation and very fast.
albaleo
What country has a "true side" and what the heck is "pretty"?
My own country at the moment has plenty of "sides" and some are quite ugly. Yet I'm happy living here. But I was always happy living in Japan despite various ugly "sides".
I'm hoping it's people like me he's trying to lure back. I'm open to offers.
gogogo
Unless Japan raises wages to international standards the only international "talent" you are going to get is the ones you see on Japanese TV.