<story><title>Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for &apos;digital nomads&apos;</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-immigration/Japan-to-introduce-six-month-residency-visa-for-digital-nomads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>So they only want high earning workers from developed countries, basically the kind of immigrants every other country wants but doesn&amp;#x27;t dare say it out loud. What&amp;#x27;s wrong with that? Their country, their rules.</text></item><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>Yeah I also find it weird because&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;To be eligible for the new status, applicants must have an annual income equivalent to 10 million yen ($68,000) or more&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;which means the newly created Digital Nomad class needs to have 2x the average GDP&amp;#x2F;capita in income?</text></item><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>Most aren&amp;#x27;t aware of the situation Japan is in today because of the world we all grew up in, where Japan was at one point nearly the largest economy in the world. Japan has been in between a recession and stagnation for 30 years. Their GDP was higher 31 years ago than it is today. [1] Their GDP&amp;#x2F;capita is $33,950 with most wages well below that. They hit a record high for average wages in 2022 of ¥311,800 - about $2,100. [2]&lt;p&gt;Next - they&amp;#x27;re dying off. They hit their inflection point in 2009 and they&amp;#x27;ve been shrinking since [3]. They&amp;#x27;ve lost more than 5million people since 2009. And the &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; thing about fertility collapse is that the decline will never stop. Their population will keep shrinking down at the &amp;#x27;equilibrium rate&amp;#x27; (decided by fertility rate) until they start having babies, or go extinct. The exact same will happen to every other country with sub-replacement fertility rates.&lt;p&gt;This, IMO, is an effort to try to attract a certain type of immigrant largely for the purposes of revenue generation.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;data.worldbank.org&amp;#x2F;indicator&amp;#x2F;NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=JP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;data.worldbank.org&amp;#x2F;indicator&amp;#x2F;NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nippon.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;japan-data&amp;#x2F;h01631&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nippon.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;japan-data&amp;#x2F;h01631&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.worldometers.info&amp;#x2F;world-population&amp;#x2F;japan-population&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.worldometers.info&amp;#x2F;world-population&amp;#x2F;japan-populat...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>standardUser</author><text>&amp;gt; basically the kind of immigrants every other country wants but doesn&amp;#x27;t dare say it out loud&lt;p&gt;Many nations have high standards for immigration relating to income, wealth and professional qualifications. There is absolutely nothing hush hush about it, not even remotely.</text></comment>
<story><title>Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for &apos;digital nomads&apos;</title><url>https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-immigration/Japan-to-introduce-six-month-residency-visa-for-digital-nomads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>FirmwareBurner</author><text>So they only want high earning workers from developed countries, basically the kind of immigrants every other country wants but doesn&amp;#x27;t dare say it out loud. What&amp;#x27;s wrong with that? Their country, their rules.</text></item><item><author>fxtentacle</author><text>Yeah I also find it weird because&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;To be eligible for the new status, applicants must have an annual income equivalent to 10 million yen ($68,000) or more&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;which means the newly created Digital Nomad class needs to have 2x the average GDP&amp;#x2F;capita in income?</text></item><item><author>somenameforme</author><text>Most aren&amp;#x27;t aware of the situation Japan is in today because of the world we all grew up in, where Japan was at one point nearly the largest economy in the world. Japan has been in between a recession and stagnation for 30 years. Their GDP was higher 31 years ago than it is today. [1] Their GDP&amp;#x2F;capita is $33,950 with most wages well below that. They hit a record high for average wages in 2022 of ¥311,800 - about $2,100. [2]&lt;p&gt;Next - they&amp;#x27;re dying off. They hit their inflection point in 2009 and they&amp;#x27;ve been shrinking since [3]. They&amp;#x27;ve lost more than 5million people since 2009. And the &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; thing about fertility collapse is that the decline will never stop. Their population will keep shrinking down at the &amp;#x27;equilibrium rate&amp;#x27; (decided by fertility rate) until they start having babies, or go extinct. The exact same will happen to every other country with sub-replacement fertility rates.&lt;p&gt;This, IMO, is an effort to try to attract a certain type of immigrant largely for the purposes of revenue generation.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;data.worldbank.org&amp;#x2F;indicator&amp;#x2F;NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=JP&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;data.worldbank.org&amp;#x2F;indicator&amp;#x2F;NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nippon.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;japan-data&amp;#x2F;h01631&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nippon.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;japan-data&amp;#x2F;h01631&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.worldometers.info&amp;#x2F;world-population&amp;#x2F;japan-population&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.worldometers.info&amp;#x2F;world-population&amp;#x2F;japan-populat...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fxtentacle</author><text>The article says &amp;quot;Japan hopes its new visa status will attract [..] YouTubers earning advertising fees from overseas companies.&amp;quot; and this is about digital nomads. To me, that seems weird because most digital nomads (and most YouTube personalities) aren&amp;#x27;t going to make that $68k limit.</text></comment>