Like California like Japan

This just in...
Apparently there are illegal mexicans in Japan too. They come for cheap labor.

A student of mine works for a NPO whose mission is to ensure illegal/ alien students go to school. Often when families immigrate to Japan for work, the kids learn Japanese faster than the adults.  So, the adults will then use the kids as personal translators, making the kids miss school to use them at work and etcetera.

Further, the illegals (Mexicans, Brazilians, Chileans, and Peruvians) have permanent residency. My student tells me that the aliens do not give birth to children in their hospital, but birth their children by other means.  This is important because the newborns do not get registered into the Japanese system and live as illegals (meaning they don't go to school because the system doesn't catch them). Why they do this I have no idea, but yeah.


Soooo as these families stay longer in Japan they begin to create their own community.  My student has told me that they often go to these communities and try to round up the kids to take them to school, but the kids have been coached to not speak to them nor reveal any information about the parents whereabouts.

An interesting situation, but for I know I can't really make an opinion about it. The Japanese face population problems and the foreigners living here help that so whatever.