Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Foreigners leaving unhappy

Today’s quote from the Nihon Keizai Shinbun:

If foreign students tell everyone how they hate this country once they go home, we should ask to what purpose we are hosting them to begin with.

courtesy of Japan Today. Could anyone be any more irrational? This kind of “thinking” needs to stop. I know the U.S. is no saint, but spreading this kind of nonsense must not happen through a top-five newspaper such as the Nihon Keizai. No wonder it takes so long to initiate change in this country….

Update: Aha. Perhaps this article from the NYT is a connection :) A little slow on the newsbites this morning. There’s a reason for that, which will become clear later today.

Update 2 — from the NYT article:

“I want to go back to China,” she said. “It’s too hard in Japan. I can’t see a future here.”