Nguyen Dinh Viet, a mechanical engineer with a degree from one of Vietnam’s best universities, moved to Japan 18 years ago. He started working at a temporary job under contract with a Toyota Motor Corp. factory, then won a permanent position with one of the carmaker’s major suppliers. He and his wife own a two-story house and two cars, a green Prius hybrid and a black Mitsubishi compact. One of his sons has Japanese citizenship and attends college studying mechanical engineering, just like his dad.
Until recently, Japan, rapidly aging and starved for labor, seemed willing to accept foreign workers like Nguyen. But this summer an upstart far-right party, called Sanseito, campaigned on a nationalist agenda and promised to tackle the “foreigner problem,” calling for more limits on immigration. Orange-clad campaigners gave speeches at a train station near Toyota’s headquarters, holding signs that read “Japanese First” and “Don’t Destroy Japan Any Further!”
AloJapan.com