This is the headline of an article in The New York Times. Unfortunately I have reached my quota of free articles this month, so I couldn't read the whole article and I can't post it here. This is the link, in case anyone wants to read it (and in this case, please copy and paste it here):
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/business/japan-immigrants-workers-trump.html Even without reading it, I can pretty much guess at its contents. Following its editorial line, The Times is probably pontificating about how immigration is the bestest cure ever for everything from the common cold to a flagging economy.
Now, I am sure some of the posters here will be tempted to comment on this from an ethnic point of view, but that is not my intention. The headline grabbed my attention because of something else: my reaction was, don't these people think a little further than the short term? Japan is a relatively small country with a huge population and terribly over-crowded cities. Is it really in their best interest as a nation to keep this madness of constant population growth in order to sustain the economy? How far can that go, in a country like Japan? Would it not be better to allow the population to decrease? Sure, there will be tough times ahead, but eventually things will settle down and couples will start having more children again.