Why become Japanese ?

**misa.j** · Oct 22, 2005, 11:35

Originally Posted by Ma Cherie

it's Kokusaika, it means internationlization, but Japan is still a closed society. So what does this mean to the Japanese?

It means westernization on the surface in several aspects such as business, culture, politics, technology, etc.

Japan has a very little experience with immigration compared to other countries even though there are many non-Japanese who were born in Japan. I'm not sure how many naturalized Japanese there are in Japan, but it must not be so many.

I'm also curious why they would want to become a Japanese while there are possibilities that they might have easier life in their home country.

**Maciamo** · Oct 22, 2005, 12:01

Originally Posted by misa.j

Japan has a very little experience with immigration compared to other countries even though there are many non-Japanese who were born in Japan.

I am not sure what the "other countries" are. Do you mean the world's few immgration countries like the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand ? We could also add the UK, France and Germany, but like Japan, they had little experience of big scale immigartion until the 1950's. Many European countries (esp. in Easten and Northern Europe) still have no experience of mass immigration. Middle-Eastern countries, India, etc. have very few foreigners too (whatever they genetic make-up, as no country is really "ethnically pure"). Japan is actually the norm rather than the exception. The USA is the world's biggest exception in term of immigration.