Is Japan highly open to the outside world?

I'm afraid we have to analyze it from two angles. On the one hand, Japan is a country that relies on foreign customers and foreign materials to survive, so it is very good to open to the outside world. In recent years, a large number of foreigners have come to Japan, and they often hold a series of international competitions and some international business forums. Foreigners know Japan very well. It is estimated that the number of foreigners who have been to Japan and know something about China is about 10.

On the other hand, Japan will allow more unskilled workers to temporarily enter the country for employment. As the country with the lowest unemployment rate among the G-7 countries, Japanese companies are still trying to fill vacant positions. Shinzo Abe has made it clear that Japan will not open permanent residency to unskilled workers, which reflects the long-standing concern of the Japanese people that the arrival of foreigners will cause social unrest and weaken national identity. "Japan will not use the word' immigration' when formulating policies," HeizoTakenaka, former Minister of Economy and Finance, said in an interview on 20 16125 October. "Abe often said that this is not an immigrant, but a foreign worker."

From a technical point of view,

After World War II, Japan has been following the path of "technical followers", and the purpose of its foreign cooperation is very clear, that is, to strive for Japan's leading position in the international scientific research field and to create research results for itself by using and relying on the advantages or talents of its partners in the research field. Japan's scientific and technological projects are not open to foreign countries, and foreign scientific research institutions or individuals cannot apply, but foreigners working in Japan are not restricted, as long as they are foreigners working in Japan. You can apply by the college or independently. Japan's science and technology plans can be divided into two categories: one is the 200 1 Japan administrative organization reform, and the six plans newly established after the merger of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, namely, ① the plan to cultivate strategic research bases; (2) Support the lifetime employment plan for young researchers; (3) Science and technology policy proposal plan; ④ Promoting the pilot research plan; (5) plan to train talents in emerging fields; ⑥ Ensure the international leadership plan. These six scientific and technological research plans do not advocate the opening of domestic scientific and technological plans to the outside world, but at the same time there are no regulations to restrict foreigners from participating in Japanese scientific and technological plans. Other transitional programs, such as the Open Comprehensive Research Program and the International Comprehensive Research Promotion Program, require Japanese research institutions to cooperate with foreign research institutions, but they are not approved by foreigners themselves. Moreover, these two plans account for a small proportion of the whole and the number of topics is limited.

In addition, the Japanese government has some scientific research funds, which are not in the form of plans. All eligible foreigners in Japan can apply for support, which is called "research grant". One of the conditions is that people who work full-time in research institutions of Japanese universities, regardless of nationality, can apply to be "research representatives" or "research contributors", but if they are not full-time (not working every day or taking part-time jobs), even those who play a central role in the research plan can only participate as "research contributors". Foreigners working in Japanese research institutes (including private research institutes) cannot apply as "research representatives". If they participate in the research, they can only get financial support as "research contributors".

In the past, Japan did not have systematic and clear rules and regulations on the ownership of research results and the handling of intellectual property rights, including the sharing of results and the handling of intellectual property rights in the science and technology plan for opening to the outside world. In order to solve this problem, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan invited relevant experts to discuss it in June 5438 +2002 10, and presented the results report in May 65438+July 2002. Its main spirit is that all public research institutions, including national universities, national research institutes and special legal persons, should ultimately belong to research (including tangible achievements such as intellectual property rights and experimental animals) to promote the transformation and application of achievements.