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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - None of these agreements — the IOM membership, the Global Compact signature, the JICA 100,000-worker plan — were ever put to a public vote.
They were negotiated between government agencies and international bodies.
Does the Japanese public know of this?
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2038476067678368101

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - There's also JICA, Japan's foreign aid agency. American equivalent is USAID. 
JICA contracted the ILO to build migrant worker protection infrastructure in Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
JICA also helped plan for 100,000 Indonesian workers to come to Japan over five years.
Japan's own aid agency is building the supply-side pipeline.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2038475904352162231

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - How do workers actually flow into Japan? Through 16 bilateral agreements managed by JITCO - Japan International Trainee & Skilled Worker Cooperation Organization.
Sending countries: Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and more. Bangladesh is 91% Muslim.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2038474571888865769

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - The same month as the 4 AM vote — December 2018 — Japan participated in the adoption of the Global Compact for Migration in Marrakech.
The GCM is aligned with SDG Target 10.7: "facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration."
Japan, as a signatory to the 2030 Agenda, committed to this target.
The normative framework and the domestic legislation arrived together.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2038473633371156560

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Now for the international layer. 
Japan joined the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as a member state in 1993, and gives almost 20 million dollars annually.
IOM's mission for Japan: help shape a society where people on the move "enrich" both themselves and the local communities.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2038473372846489823

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - The driving force behind the 4 AM vote: Yoshihide Suga.
Chief Cabinet Secretary 2012–2020. He "championed" the SSW program and "emphasised the urgency" as the vote was called before dawn.
Also worth noting: Keidanren (Japan's most powerful business federation) publicly demanded more foreign workers.
Keidanren Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi (2018–2021) — Stanford University educated — was in the chair when the bill passed.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2038472387037962720

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - The Mansfield Fellowship Program.
Since 1994: 208+ US federal employees from nearly 30 federal agencies placed inside Japanese government ministries.
Two-year program. Ten months working directly inside Japanese agencies.
The man who drafted this legislation as a Senate intern became Japan's Foreign Minister. In 2022, he supervised its expansion.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2038470818926407859

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Foreign Minister #3: Yoshimasa Hayashi (2021–2023).
MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, 1994.
Before Harvard, Hayashi interned inside the US Senate ...  for Senator William Roth. While there, he drafted the blueprint for the Mansfield Fellowship Program.
Congress passed it in 1994. It places US federal employees inside Japanese government ministries.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2038470541036663070
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