Japanese at immigration crossroads / Australian Financial Review , 1 Apr 2005

http://afr.com/articles/2005/03/31/1111862525788.html
Niels Planel
"With one of the lowest birthrates in the world, Japan has been forced to look at accepting wide-scale immigration, a prospect which may keep its economy running but makes much of the public uneasy.
A justice ministry report has asked the cabinet to 'firmly consider' bringing unskilled foreign workers to historically homogenous Japan in a bid to ward off a looming demographic crisis."