Recently, I have been reading many articles about wealthy Chinese immigrating to Japan and buying Japanese real estate. Many Japanese are concerned or uncomfortable with the idea that Japan may be bought up. It is true that an increasing number of Chinese are migrating to Japan from China after the Corona disaster. However, the majority of them are not the wealthy but the “middle class,” and many of them are not buying real estate but renting with their families. This time, we were able to meet and talk directly with two families who came to Japan from China in 2022. (Wang Qing, President, Japan-China Welfare Planning Co.)
They have social status and are not in financial trouble.
Chinese couple moved from Shanghai to Osaka
Last May, when Shanghai was in the midst of a lockdown, the family of Mr. Liu Qingliu (pseudonym, late 40s) arrived in Japan after escaping strict surveillance. They have lived in Osaka for a year.
Although Mr. Liu had obtained a Japanese “business and management” status* in China, ordinary citizens were not allowed to leave their homes at the time, so Mr. Liu donned protective clothing, posed as a seriously ill patient with coronas, and arrived at the airport in a white taxi he found on the Internet. On the way, he was stopped and questioned several times by the police. The fare for the white taxi was 20 times the normal fare. For more information on how difficult it is to come to Japan under lockdown, please refer to our previous article, “Finally Back in the Human World,” in which we reported on the rapidly growing popularity of emigration to Japan in China. For more details, please refer to the article “How the popularity of immigrating to Japan is increasing in China.
*”Management/Administration” visa status: A visa that foreign entrepreneurs who establish a company and start a business in Japan are required to obtain in order to manage and administer the business.
Mr. Liu’s family consists of four people: Mr. Liu, his wife, and two sons in elementary and junior high school. Mr. Liu owned an auto parts trading company. His wife was a director who worked hard at a national radio station. His social status was not bad. Financially, they had no difficulties at all in their lives.
So why did he come to Japan? When I asked her why she came to Japan, she replied, “For my children’s future.
When I look at my sons’ school education and textbooks these days, I feel that patriotic education is becoming too strong and the weight of political propaganda is increasing year by year. I fear that my children will be brainwashed, and I feel a sense of crisis that something must be done about it,” he said.
