CVN( Japan) Dhaka professor announced last month that Bangladesh could supply 300,000 workers to Japan by 2029.
The number went viral. Western anti-immigration accounts seized on it as proof Japan was importing a third of a million Bangladeshis.
There was just one problem.
The 300,000 figure came from Bangladesh — not Tokyo.
It was Dhaka’s wishful claim to capture 40% of Japan’s Specified Skilled Worker quota.
Meanwhile, Takaichi’s government quietly cut that quota from 820,000 to 805,700.
Mandatory Japanese language tests are now in force. Restaurant-sector visas were frozen the moment the cap neared. Deportations hit a record high under her Zero Illegal Foreign Residents Plan.
Bangladesh was selling a number Japan never agreed to buy.
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