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>But these fears are frequently based on oversimplified or misapplied interpretations of economic models, and appear to be driven more by political agendas rather than evidence

A razor for people who think like this:

Do you think Japan and Japanese people would have a higher or lower quality of life if they had accepted unlimited sub-Saharan Africa immigration?

This should separate serious people from the not so serious people pretty rapidly.

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It's not directly related to your post, but Japan has a very significant Brazilian population that live in very specific parts of Japan. Toyota[1], and its prefecture Aichi, are known for having a Portuguese-speaking population and they are, of course, working as cheap labor in automobile industries. In fact, some signs on the road are written in Portuguese, too.

[1] Name of a city

There's a significant number of Japanese in Brazil, and a large portion of the Brazilian population is of Japanese descent. They're called the Nikkei Japanese, and they're predominantly ethnically Japanese.

I wonder if there's the stat somewhere but I'm sure a sizeable portion is at least half Brazilian so it makes them a "half"—as Japanese like to say—which they don't tend to regard very highly. It is indeed a marginalized group in Japan and probably why there is such a big community in that area.

Since Brazil has a very significant Japanese population, that makes me wonder: Are these Brazilians in Japan ethnically Japanese or of other ethnicities?

They're mostly ethnically Japanese Brazilians.

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Every country that accepts immigration from Africa gets lower quality of life. See Germany as an example.

Unlimited? Do you think Sub-Saharan Africa would have a higher or lower quality of life if they had accepted unlimited Japanese immigration?

Of course literally unlimited amounts of people is a bad thing. Did you mean unregulated?

No need to be pedantic, we know that there are physical limits to people that exist. Obviously, we're talking about uncapped immigration.

Regarding your question, it's for you to answer bi-directionally, the result being interrogating hidden information.

I think you know very well what he means and you're latching onto semantics for no good reason.

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