An effort to strengthen friendship between Japanese and African countries has turned into an outdoor scandal about migration after the reports incorrectly appear that this plan will lead to an immigrant flow.
The scandal broke out after the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced this month that they have appointed four Japanese cities, the indigenous city of Africa to partner countries in Africa: Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania, writing The Guardian.
The program, published at the end of the International African Development Conference in Iokogam, will include personnel exchange and events to enhance the relationship between the four regional cities of Japan – Imabari, Kisaraz, Sandze and Nagai – and African countries.
The light of events on the media of four countries and reference materials on Japanese articles has caused negative reactions on Japanese social networks, as well as an angry calls and email to offices of Japanese cities.
Some critics seem to believe that the status of a homeland of Muslims means people from African countries will be allowed to be special to live and work in partner cities in Japan.
“If the immigrant pours out a stream, who will be responsible?” – It was said in one of the messages on social networks.
A post on social networks, which declared that the Kisaraju government had seriously considered the possibility of moving the city to Africa, collecting 4.6 million views.
The leaders of the four cities have received thousands of complaints from confused residents. Our team consists of 15 officials who spend all day processing hundreds of phone calls and thousands of emails from residents, representatives of Sandze's government told France.
According to officials, from Monday, 350 phone calls and 3,500 emails were received in the city, while Imabari received 460 calls and 1,400 emails from the people who asked the city whether the city would accept new immigration policies, the guard.
Secretary -General of the Japanese ministers, Yosimas Hayashi, said the claims were unfounded. We have no plans to encourage the reception of immigrants or special visas, he told reporters.
The cities also try to clarify the situation. The mayor of Kisaradzu Yosikuni Vatanabe noted that the city has received Nigerian athletes during the Olympic Games and Paralympic Olympics in Tokyo in 2020, adding that this project will not lead to the reception of migrants.
He added: Our initiatives will include cooperation in nurturing young people based on discipline using baseball and soft ball, and this is not the program that will lead to movement or immigration.
Mayor Sandze Rio Takizawa declared in its statement: It is true that the city requires migrants or immigrants from Ghana and the city has no plans to apply for such request in the future.
Some people explained this protest by publishing in the newspaper Tanzania Times under the title “Japan for the city of Nagai Tanzania”. According to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, the word Devotes was translated on social networks into Japanese as Sasager when Sasager, which could be understood as the city that had sacrificed the Tanzania.
The Nigerian government is also clear, misunderstood the details of the program, calling Kisaraju the opening place for Nigerians who want to live and work in Japan. The Japanese government, it added, will create a special type of visa for experts eligible from the West African country.
It is known that the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appealed to the Nigerian government for repair, while the JICA government said that some media published articles containing incorrect information and false information.
Currently, JICA calls for relevant local media and the African government (in such an accurate text! – Auth.)