Why does England have racial diversity but Japan does not?

Question

The Japanese use the excuse that their land is 75% mountainous and with the land they have they cannot support anymore people. Yet even though England isn't 75% mountainous, there is still more people per square mile than Japan. Yet, England has immigrants pouring in. While the immigrants in Japan are only a small trickle of the population like 0.1% I think the issue is here is that "Only whites are prejudice and and they need race mixing and diversity". But since the Japanese are not white they are already "tolerant of other cultures". Isn't it weird how all white nations have racial diversity now, while Asian countries or black countries do not?

Answer 1

Same Reason They Don't Teach SPANISH In Japanese Schools

See The Answer Above Mine

Answer 2

Because it is their policy and political strategy.
And probably East Asian countries, including Japan, do NOT think the racial diversity is happy solution.

Registered foreign residents in Japan are 2M (million), officially. The population of Japanese is 127M. This means the foreigners are less than 2%.
Taiwan is similar. 98% is Han Chinese. In Korea, I think nearly 100% are Koreans.
In China, 75% are Han race Chinese. However, other minorities also follow the Han race's language and a portion of its culture. Because Mao Zedong set the rule to use their language, Mandarin, as their official language. Many minorities have already lost their own languages.
In the East Asia, you won't be able to expect the racial diversity like the US and Europe.
Even in those countries, I doubt whether they are trying to admit and accept the diversity for Muslim ppl.

East Asian countries have learned what are good and bad of the racial diversity.
They won't repeat the same failure occurred in those multicultural nations. e.g. The riot in the France, racial conflicts in London, etc.

And in Japan, I should add another relevant fact to the "tolerant of other cultures". Japanese don't accept other cultures as itself. They arrange everything by their hand and turn them into their own culture.
eg. You will find many western culture in Japan, however, you will also find the quality, usability and taste are different from the west.

East Asian nations are happy with today's situation. And each nations are very close, 3-5 hours flight only.
Leave them alone.

Answer 3

Unlike England, Japan never had such a long colonial history. Today, there are two million Koreans (former colony 1910-1945) living in Japan, one million Chinese (especially Taiwanese >> former colony 1894-1945) and one million immigrants from other countries like the Philipines, Malaysia, Indonesia as well as Westerners from Europe, Australia and the U.S.

They never had a period, like Germany in the 50s-70s, where they "invited" immigrants to their country to work there "for a while" (which then prefered to stay there) and you should not forget that the biggest part of immigrants in the UK, in France or in the Netherlands are from former colonies.
Japan was isolated for over 400 years, they didn't explore new continents, where they could establish countries which would become later a classical immigration country (like the U.S., Canada or Australia).

That's the reason. The European colonies (African countries, Latin America, India, etc), for example, were immigration countries (a lot of Europeans moved there) before they became independent and the Europeans moved back to the former colonial power.
Source(s)

(the comment on japanese airlines is not true. I understand japanese and no one apologised for seating me there where I was seated. I took JAL.)

Answer 4

japan are very very protective of thier culture and that goes from top to bottom.it may be political that they state the facts you raise but its a naition as a whole who (luckily)do not have the problem of political correctness.the country and its friends get on splendidly because the visitors(work or tourist) totally respect thier way of life because we feel its expected.
if our country had the same attitude as the japanese then the pc brigade would be non exist and co habitation would not be a problem because the visitors(work/tourist)would HAVE to accept our way of life.
racial diversity only exists because of the lack of respect for the host nation or the host nations view that the visitor has no respect for the host

Answer 5

The US's melting pot thing trying to force harmoniousness on the masses doesn't work. We embrace our diversity in Canada & have fewer problems than you. Uni-cultural nations are having more & more problems as they open their boarders & the existing citizens backlash & the new ones feel alienated. Look at France.

Answer 6

The answer is both historical and cultural.

Historically, Japan has been the most xenophobic nation in Asia, and arguably the world. Their distant history is one of isolationism and fierce defense of their home islands (as the Mongols learned many centuries ago, when the "divine wind" crushed their attempt to conquer Japan). Their recent history (20th C.) is one of astounding aggression against their Korean and Chinese neighbors. Keep in mind that Japan was an isolated, feudal nation until the 1870s, with zero tolerance for outsiders. That said, the Chinese have for eons considered the Japanese to be low-bred island squatters disinclined to high culture and enlightenment. So the pendulum swings both ways.

Culturally, Japan is xenophobic toward its Asian neighbors. They are agnostic toward Chinese and Korean culture. Though they embrace American culture, they remain at arm's length from most Americans and do not engage them socially. The amicable relationship between Japan and America is grounded in economical terms, not cultural. They are a racist nation, with minimal tolerance for multiculturalism on their home turf.

In sum, Japan has built a cultural barrier of intolerance that inhibits any sort of real multicultural breakthrough, and an historical barrier of aggression and disdain. As a result, no one in Asia outside of Japan endeavors to emigrate to Japan.

That said, the Japanese people are a pretty decent lot overall, as long as you respect their parameters.

Answer 7

What?
I have friends that work and live in Asian countries: doing banking, business, engineering, and they seem to get along fine. The women practically throw themselves at them, and they are seen as cool Westerners by most of the youth. I am not sure about immigrating officially, but perhaps they dont want to. The trend is towards Westernization.
African countries are simply too undesirable made by European and modern abuses.

Answer 8

Japanese can be quite racist. They see most foreigners with indifference, distrusts or plain desdain.

But this is changing, giving the population trends they are bringing foreign workers from other asian counries or from countries as far as Brazil, in this case Brazilians with Japanese ancestry.

European countries are some of the less diverse in the world when it comes to peoples living in a given country.

In China and India hundreds of languages and dialects by many different peoples are spoken, in Southafrica you have many peoples that made necessary to declare 13 languages as official in the country, in Singapore they have 4 official languages (English, Bahasa Malaysia-Indonesia, Tamil and one of the Chinese languages). In Mexico 80% of the population is of mixed descent (European, Native American, Black, Jew, Arabic). Of Iraq, better we don't talk.

The immigration "problem" of the UK, the 4th economy of the world and with a birth rate declining below self sutainability, is laughable when compared with other countries (and don't start me assylum, the pitiful amount received by the UK pales in comparision with the amounts of people received by countries like Iran, Syria, Kenia and others, who count their assylum seekers by the millions).

Also you are defining "race" in the very narrow criteria of skin colour.

If you use DNA diversity, most African countries are immensily more diverse than European countries, since poplulations there are older and groups of human people have been diverging for longer time.

Answer 9

Read Danijel's answer. That really is why. Trust me, I am from Japan. But personally, I think Japan should take more people from abroad, so people can learn different cultures. It is not such a good thing to be mono-cultural, as it can make you ignorant without you realising.

Answer 10

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