Outside a train station near Tokyo, hundreds of people cheer as Sohei Kamiya, head of the surging nationalist party Sanseito, criticizes Japan’s rapidly growing foreign population.

As opponents, separated by uniformed police and bodyguards, accuse him of racism, Kamiya shouts back, saying he is only talking common sense.

Sanseito, while still a minor party, made big gains in July’s parliamentary election, and Kamiya’s “Japanese First” platform of anti-globalism, anti-immigration and anti-liberalism is gaining broader traction ahead of a ruling party vote Saturday that will choose the likely next prime minister.

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    There is a limit to how much work you can get out of a fixed group of people no matter how much money you throw at them. If you ask me to build a thousand houses in an hour I’ll say “I can’t do that” and it won’t matter if you offer me a billion dollars to do it, I can’t do it.

    The reason the population crisis in Japan is called a population crisis is because it is threatening to go past that threshold. It wouldn’t be a crisis otherwise.

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      The reason the population crisis in Japan is called a population crisis is because it is threatening to go past that threshold. It wouldn’t be a crisis otherwise.

      Right, and I’m doubting that that is the case, because nobody who claims these things actually shares data and evidence to support that claim.

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        21 hours ago

        I linked you to a page specifically about that 14 hours ago elsewhere in this thread.

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          Pretty sure the user you’re replying to is a troll or a literal child. The rest of their conversations about this topic didn’t go much better.

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          That’s so surface level, it’s basically insulting and doesn’t support the argument you’re making. It’s just some website saying random stuff that could or could not be true.