Post by @David@setouchi.social

RE: https://famichiki.jp/@mainichi/117364300345695171

"Japan's significantly stricter permanent residency requirements and visa fee hikes went into effect Oct. 1, moves the government says are aimed at "coexistence with foreigners who follow the rules" "

If you're a foreigner and you're poor, it obviously mean that you can't follow the rules and coexist with Japan....

Read the article (and many more), and notice how the government never ever gives numbers of "foreigners who don't follow the rules and who don't aim at coexisting." ⤵️

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David B. :SetouchiExplorer:

@David@setouchi.social 5 hr. ago

In this article there is one number.
Apparently "1.96% of permanent residents receive public assistance."

How many people is that? We don't know. How many people are going to research the actual number? Well, I will.
There are around 950,000 permanent residents in Japan. 1.96% of those is: 18,620. Less than 20,000 foreigners receive public assistance in Japan...

Totally unacceptable according to some.

🔏 Matthias Wiesmann

@thias@mastodon.social 3 hr. ago

@David «Pour qu’il y ait le moins de mécontents possible, il faut toujours taper sur les mêmes.»

David B. :SetouchiExplorer:

@David@setouchi.social 21 min. ago

@thias C'est encore pire en ce moment. Les Japonais sont de plus en plus mécontents envers... les touristes étrangers... Mais ceux-là, le gouvernement veut leur pognon, donc pas question de réduire leur nombre, bien au contraire, alors à la place pour satisfaire la xénophobie ambiante, on tape sur les étrangers que l'on peut attraper. Ceux qui vivent ici. Et bien sûr, surtout les pauvres. ⤵️

Andrew :hokkaido: :chikified:

@piepants@famichiki.jp 5 hr. ago

@David I’m curious now - is there a stat for the percentage of Japanese people receiving public assistance? Given the unemployment rate is 2.5% in 2025, I’d guess it’s more than 2% of Japanese people (and this would mean foreigners are actually *less* reliant on welfare)

But of course stats mean nothing when government decisions are driven by misinformation on the Twitter Nazi bar.

Janne Moren

@jannem@fosstodon.org 5 hr. ago

@piepants @David
What does "public assistance" include? Does it include insurance systems - unemployment, health care, pension? Foreigners can already not get social assistance so I guess perhaps it does.

But those are systems that we pay for - and in some cases regulated by international treaties.

David B. :SetouchiExplorer:

@David@setouchi.social 5 hr. ago

@jannem @piepants Apparently, it's stuff that we shouldn't be allowed to get but that 1.96% of us get. So, of course, instead of investigating why people get it (because some administrations allow it, probably) let's accuse the foreigners of stealing it, somehow.

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David B. :SetouchiExplorer:

@David@setouchi.social 5 hr. ago

@piepants The article says that it's a similar number for citizens receiving public assistance. (a bit less than 2%)

Also, note that the 1.96% is for permanent residents only, so for all foreigners (as we can assume that non permanent residents don't get any public assistance), it's 0.5% of the total of foreigners living in Japan who receive public assistance. (If I didn't make a mistake counting)