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- Evidence of Urban Blending in Homogenized Temperature Records in Japan and in the United States: Implications for the Reliability of Global Land Surface Air Temperature Data https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/apme/62/8/JAMC-D-22-0122.1.xml 3 comments science
- Japan, one of the most homogenous countries in the world, is looking towards a "immigration revolution" to stop the population decline http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-16/japan-needs-immigration-revolution-to-boost-dwindling-workforce/6086894 489 comments worldnews
- Just 946,060 babies were born in 2017 in Japan, a record low since official records began in 1899. With 20% of its population already over 65, this will require an unprecedented influx of immigrants to the largely homogeneous nation https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/06/asia/japan-immigration-bill-foreign-workers/index.html 25 comments worldnews
- Japan Radically Increased Immigration—and No One Protested: "This growth in immigration, in turn, is changing the image of Japan from ethnically homogenous to moderately diverse. Among Tokyo residents in their 20s, 1 in 10 is now foreign-born." https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/23/japan-immigration-policy-xenophobia-migration/ 20 comments internationalpolitics