As the government tells it, Japan doesn't accept unskilled foreign labor. Except it does.
For example, a state-sponsored technical internship program brings in a slew of foreign "trainees" every year, ostensibly to provide instruction in advanced industrial methods. But in reality, the trainees provide a surreptitious source of cheap labor, with many being consigned to blue-collar jobs such as factory work.
For Yoshio Kimura, an Upper House legislator with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, the contradiction is obvious to the point of being ridiculous.