Japan as an Immigration Nation

This book proposes a solution to three interrelated problems facing Japan: the rapidly declining population, a decrease in working age adults, and a lack of social and economic vitality. Hidenori Sakanaka, the former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, proposes that Japan accept ten million immigrants, including refugees, over the next fifty years, and articulates the benefits of this measure for Japan and its future. The author has spent close to fifty years working in the field of immigration and was one of the first to identify the pending population crisis as early as the mid-1970s. This is the first time his thoughts appear in book-length form in English.

Hidenori Sakanaka established the Japan Immigration Policy Institute and is the author of almost two dozen books about immigration policy in Japan.
Robert D. Eldridge is former associate professor of Japanese political and diplomatic history at Osaka University.
Graham B. Leonard earned a PhD in international public policy from Osaka University.

Chapter 1: The Need for an "Immigration Revolution" and a "Japanese Revolution"
Chapter 2: The Development of the "Human Community" Concept
Chapter 3: Politician, Bureaucrat, Revolutionary
Chapter 4: Japanese Immigration Policy is Preceded by Global Praise
Chapter 5: Leader of the National Commitment to Immigration
Chapter 6: The Spirit of the Japanese-style Immigration Nation
Chapter 7: Economics, Finances, and Immigration Policy
Chapter 8: Population and Immigrants
Chapter 9: The Human Community-Global Citizens-Hybrid Japan
Chapter 10: The Return of Japanese Left Behind in North Korea
Chapter 11: The Path Traveled by the Director of the Japan Immigration Policy Institute