Japan trying to pay immigrant labor to leave - is that an answer?

The issues with immigrant labor in Japan are very similar to the ones in the USA. People complain about immigrants 'taking the jobs away' from citizens, but in truth they come to do the work that natives often do not want to do because it is hard, dirty, hazardous or low paid.

If anything the Japanese have a more dire demogrpahic situation than we do in the US. The birthrate is negative which means there will soon be more senior citizens and fewer young working adults and children for some decades to come. The challenge is how to 'get over the hump' without negatively impacting the economy or living standards.

The differences are that Japan beign largely a homogenous society with one racial and cultural backround that foreigners 'stand out' in perpetuity. It is very difficult to obtain Japanese citizenship, in fact some might say that the country has yet to separate the concept of nationality from racial and cultural identity. They're working on it but they haven't really had to face the issue until recently. Intermarriage rates are finally rising to the point where they will have to deal with it soon. So, few foreigners come to Japan with the plan of becoming Japanese the same same way people come to America hoping to become American.

I don't think it is fair to make long term residents with a job go home. And Japan needs to do more for the foreigners already on its shores to be fair to them and attract the quality of immigrant most benficial to their economy.

This story is not a simple as it sounds. These "labor workers" are immigrants from Brasil, Japanese descent. About 100 years ago a large number of Japanese immigrated to Brazil as labor workers for the coffee plantains, and after the second World war, Brasil was one of the countries that provided amnesty to the Japanese population that fled the country - consequently, we have only in Sao Paulo alone, the largest number of Japanese people outside of Japan.
The majority of these so called "labor workers", are Japanese-Brasilian legally in Japan, who have the right to be there because of their Japanese parents, and who moved to Japan in search of a better life.
This is not at all a similar case to the US. These people can not be deported, and are not being deported, which is why Japan is offering them money to leave willingly. They are Japanese people by birth, and one or both of their parents are Japanese.
Clearly, the government, with the current crisis, finds it less costly to give them a sum of $$$ to leave, than to pay for unemployment benefits. They are only doing this because they know these people can go back to their own country by choice only.
As far as "quality labor", there is nothing to do with it. The a great percentage of these people are well educated in their countries, but when immigrating, not speaking the language fluently, without a work history in the country, it is quite hard to find a job in their field, which is why they go into the sub-employment market. Let's face it - what is the number of schools in the world that teach Japanese as a second language?
The huge and IMO immoral, if not illegal problem here, is that they are taking advantage of these peoples stress, offering them money, and in return they will revoke their legal and legitimate right to be in Japan- these people will never be able to get into Japan again. This, IMO, is ludicrous, since these people are Japanese!
This is a completely different situation than the immigration problem in the US - we are not talking about illegal immigrants here - we are talking about unemployed citizens.
I am a foreigner, an American Citizen, and I am on unemployment - now what? Should I be sent back to Brazil because of this crisis too? Sorry, but this whole thing if not bizarre, is just plain stupid to me. We are not the ones responsible for this mess, and should NOT be the ones being punished because of it! Oh ,yeah - maybe we should just send all the unemployed Japanese in Brasil back to Japan too. That would do it.