TOKYO—One by one, the students, lawyers and others filed into a classroom in a central Tokyo university for a lecture by a Chinese journalist on Taiwan and democracy—taboo topics that can’t be discussed publicly back home in China.
Du Hai, center, a Chinese ballet dancer who has made Japan his home, teaches a class at a studio in Ichikawa, east of Tokyo, Japan, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024.
Chinese migrants are flowing to all corners of the world, from workers seeking to start businesses of their own in Mexico to burned-out students heading to Thailand. Those choosing Japan tend to be well-off or highly educated, drawn to the country’s ease of living, rich culture and immigration policies that favor highly skilled professionals, with less of the sharp anti-immigrant backlash sometimes seen in Western countries.
“The US is shutting out those Chinese that are friendliest to them, that most share its values,” said Li Jinxing, a Christian human-rights lawyer who moved to Japan in 2022. Chinese are the most numerous newcomers, at 822,000 last year among more than 3 million foreigners living in Japan, according to government data. That’s up from 762,000 a year ago and 649,000 a decade ago.
“Protection of private property, which is the cornerstone of a capitalist society, that piece is missing in China,” Wang said.And while the Japanese economy has stagnated, China’s once-sizzling economy is also in a rut, with the property sector in crisis and stock prices stuck at the level they were in the late 2000s.
“Life in Japan is good,” said Guo Yu, an engineer who retired early after working at ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok.
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