So guys, here in Japan, Chinese people come over here in their thousands, snap up old homes, fix them up (shoddily) and turn them into Airbnbs. They do this because, in their own country, your offspring cannot inherit your land, the government always owns the land on which your home, etc. rests, and you only have the right to use that land for 70-ish years. Therefore, the Chinese horde property overseas to invest and protect their wealth.

This is causing a serious issue, wherein local people are having difficulty purchasing homes because the Chinese are hoarding them. It also negatively effects the neighborhoods in which these guest houses are located, because tourists are rude, and they generate noise and rubbish that the other residents have to clean up. Eventually, once a neighborhood is all Airbnbs, it will have effectively lost its "charm" (because there are no locals left to clean up after the tourists).

Anyway, this is the situation in the large city I live in, and I think this and other negative externalities involving overtourism, as well as overstep by foreigners buying up real-estate, has contributed to a new wave of anti-foreigner sentiment in Japan. This week, that wave propelled the "Sanseito" party to a big win in Japanese parliament this week, as they promoted themselves as the "anti-foreigner" party. This resonated with young people disaffected with poor economic prospects and sluggish wage increases, but also home owners who have suffered from the effects of Chinese people silently invading their neighborhoods and using residential homes to make a quick buck while ruining the peace and quiet and generally making life worse for everyone that lives nearby. I wouldn't be surprised if this wave of populism culminates in foreigners from unfriendly nations being banned from buying property for business purposes, at a minimum.

>Why are you posting this here?

There are Chinese people in here.