{"id":7153,"date":"2010-07-14T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T00:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2010-07-14T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T00:39:49","slug":"nj-population-falls-in-2009-for-the-first-time-since-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7153","title":{"rendered":"NJ population falls in 2009 for the first time since 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0In probably the most significant news germane to Debito.org this year, we have for the first time in nearly a half-century (48 years) the population of NJ decreasing in Japan. \u00a0Looks like the “Nikkei Repatriation Bribe<\/a>” was very effective indeed.<\/p>\n

To try to take the edge off this bad news, I have an Ishihara joke at the end of this blog post if you’re interested. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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Number of registered foreigners marks 1st fall since 1961
\nKyodo\/Japan Today Wednesday 07th July 2010, 06:00 AM JST<\/strong>
\n http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/national\/view\/number-of-registered-foreigners-marks-1st-fall-since-1961<\/a><\/p>\n

TOKYO \u2014 The number of registered foreign residents of Japan declined 31,000 from a year earlier to around 2.186 million as of the end of 2009, marking the first year-on-year fall since 1961, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry\u2019s immigration bureau attributed the fall to a decline in job offers in areas with manufacturing businesses, including automakers, amid the global recession.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The number of foreign residents came to 674,000 in the first survey in 1959 before falling to 640,000 in the second survey in 1961, after which it continued to increase, topping 2 million in 2005, according to the bureau. By prefecture, Aichi, the home of auto giant Toyota Motor Corp., saw the largest decline with a fall of 13,600 from the year before to 215,000, followed by Shizuoka, where the number fell 9,800 to 93,000. There was a significant drop in the number of Brazilian nationals, the third-largest foreign population in Japan, from around 312,000 to 267,000.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The number of foreign residents increased in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures, mostly because the urban region still attracts workers for food service industries, according to the bureau.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Ishihara joke, source unknown:<\/p>\n

“Tokyo Governor Ishihara has long declared crows in Tokyo to be a public nuisance, so he was offering a cash prize to anyone who could figure out a way to get rid of them, such as creating a recipe to make them edible etc.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“One day, a man walked into the Tokyo Governor’s office claiming to have the solution to the crow problem. \u00a0Ishihara granted him an audience.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“The man pulled out a box and opened it. \u00a0Inside was a Golden Crow, which took wing and began flying circles around Ishihara’s office.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“‘This is the solution?’ Ishihara grumbled impatiently. \u00a0The man said, ‘Wait, open a window and let him outside.’<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“A functionary charged with opening windows was summoned, and the Golden Crow flew out, resuming his airborne circle over the city of Tokyo.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“In due course, all the other crows in Tokyo began following the Golden Crow, flying round and round in a huge cloud. \u00a0Then suddenly, the Golden Crow flew out to sea, and crashed into Tokyo Bay.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“All the other crows followed suit and drowned. \u00a0Tokyo was de-crowed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Ishihara flashed his vulpine smile. \u00a0‘Well done!’ \u00a0And as he pulled out the cash prize, he asked:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“‘Now, do you think you can come up with a Golden Gaijin?'”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In probably the most significant news germane to Debito.org this year, we have for the first time in nearly a half-century (48 years) the population of NJ decreasing in Japan. Looks like the “Nikkei Repatriation Bribe” was very effective indeed. <\/p>\n

To try to take the edge off this bad news, I have an Ishihara joke at the end of this blog post if you’re interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-labor-issues","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}