Even Japan, with its already strict laws, has had it with immigration

Japan faces the choice of accepting more immigration to offset its chronic demographic decline, or prioritizing cultural cohesion with tight borders, and its new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is a champion of the latter.

“I want to have a calm, mutually considerate relationship with foreigners,” Takaichi said . “Year after year, the culture between us, and everything else, is so very different, yet people are being brought in all together … this policy, we must pause and reconsider it.”

The worldwide immigration debate has crashed onto the shores of Japan. Unlike Western mass immigration regimes, the Japanese system admits temporary workers and students but offers few routes to naturalization. Citizenship is jus sanguinis, naturalization is strict and dual citizenship is forbidden.