{"id":5357,"date":"2026-09-02T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:10:13","slug":"japan-will-not-follow-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"Japan Will Not Follow Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When asked whether Japan will welcome more immigrants, Japanese Finance Minister Katayama said, \u201cWe are not imagining a situation where our society will be like European countries.\u201d<br><br>She also spoke about when she was in France for two years and noted that even though immigrants from former French colonies speak French, there was still a feeling among French people that they are of a different culture, like how Japanese people feel they are also of a different culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/JAPAN-WILL-NOT-FOLLOW-EUROPE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/JAPAN-WILL-NOT-FOLLOW-EUROPE-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/JAPAN-WILL-NOT-FOLLOW-EUROPE-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/JAPAN-WILL-NOT-FOLLOW-EUROPE-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/JAPAN-WILL-NOT-FOLLOW-EUROPE-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/JAPAN-WILL-NOT-FOLLOW-EUROPE.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked whether Japan will welcome more immigrants, Japanese Finance Minister Katayama said, \u201cWe are not imagining a situation where our society will be like European countries.\u201d She also spoke about when she was in France for two years and noted that even though immigrants from former French colonies speak French, there was still a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3730,3731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}