Japan is "waking up": cheap ** visas to Chinese.
Recently, Keiro Kitagami, a member of the Japanese House of Representatives, asked Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a series of questions.
From the rising number of real estate in Tokyo, Japan, where young people cannot afford to buy a house, to the large purchase of real estate by foreigners in Japan, but there is no information on this in Japan, and it is not known how many foreigners have bought real estate in Japan, but it is well known. He also said that the application threshold for Japanese business managers is too low, and he hopes that the entry conditions will be raised. He spoke for a long time, and even backed it up with the information he had gathered.
There are probably two meanings:
1. The Chinese are buying on a large scale, which is likely to cause the price increase of Japanese real estate, but we have not calculated and have no corresponding countermeasures, which is unfair.
2. Japan's industrial and commercial administrative visa is equal to low price**, Chinese can move their families to it at any time, and Japan's public security is also facing a severe test.
According to the information provided by Kitagami Keirao, we can know:
As of June next year, Japan has issued 35,061 operations manager visas, and 17,662 Chinese employees, about half of whom are employees. However, since 2022, the number of Chinese holding such passports has increased to 70%.
Kitagami Keiro also made the operation manager visa in Japan very "cheap" and compared it with similar standards in other countries.
The minimum investment amount for a Japanese business manager is 5 million yen (equivalent to RMB 240,000).
In the U.S., the minimum requirement ranges from 2955,500,000 to 44,300,000 yen (1,410,000-2,110,000).
In Australia, the minimum requirement ranges from 19.4 million to 48.5 million yen.
The threshold in Singapore is even higher, with 1.1 billion yen (equivalent to 52 million) just for enrollment.
Could it be that our requirements are too low? Kitagami Keiro looked at Fumio Kishida and asked.
Fumio Kishida disagrees with a series of questions from Kitagami Keirao, he said that the *** in Tokyo, Japan has nothing to do with foreigners buying houses, and more because of the cost of building materials and labor. But there is one thing that Feng Yu still agrees with, that is, there will be more numbers of foreign home buyers in Japan to be counted.
Although Japan does not have detailed information on the purchase of real estate by foreigners, the information on the purchase of real estate by foreigners is quite complete, and the general trend can be glimpsed.
According to figures released by the Japan Forestry Agency, by the end of 2021, Chinese investors had purchased a total of 2,376 hectares of land in Japan, an increase of 42 times.
Chinese are keen to buy property in Hokkaido, Fukuoka Prefecture and other places in Japan.
In Japan, in 2016, foreign investors bought 202 hectares of forest land, accounting for 83%, while Chinese groups bought about 83%. Japanese newspapers even used a terrible headline that read "Chinese bought Hokkaido."
Chinese (including Hong Kong) investors purchased a total of 969 hectares in Fukuoka Prefecture (including Hong Kong), Japan, equivalent to 40% of the land purchased by foreign investors.
Because the political situation between China and Japan has become more tense in the past two years, it is natural that Chinese have purchased a large number of real estate and real estate in Japan. Mr. Kitagami referred to the issue as "** Although he insisted that he was not hostile to the Chinese, he said that the presence of a large number of Chinese in Japan meant "insecurity."
Hokami Keiro also mentioned Canada, and he hopes that Japan will introduce regulations to regulate the purchase of real estate by foreigners.
Due to the housing of foreigners in China, Canada has decided to restrict non-Canadians from January 1, 2025, and announced that from 2022, residents will be prohibited from buying houses in Canada. Subsequently, this date was postponed by 2 years, until the 1st of 2025.
From the perspective of all the rich countries in the world, Japan is indeed the minimum standard for entry into the United States.
When everyone is raising immigration standards, Japan is still "late to realize" and "bottom-up" for a large number of Chinese. However, when some Japanese politicians "woke up", this relaxed immigration policy (especially the controversial executive visas, which has been made clear by the Chinese) has become confusing.