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Japan’s Crackdown on Immigration: Is It Working?

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Rei Saito
Aug 23, 2026
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Every morning, my aunt in Kumamoto sends me a Facebook Reel. Sometimes it’s cute animals, but more and more, it’s things like a foreigner doing something rude on a train, a shop sign in a language she can’t read, a tourist climbing something she definitely shouldn’t. You get the theme.

No shade to my cute aunt, but she’s 71, and never had a problem with …

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