2026-02-23
Political party Team Mirai wants to replace foreign workers in Japan with AI. Their brilliant idea is to replace white-collar jobs held by Japanese workers & force them to “retrain” to handle work predominantly done by immigrant laborers, such as construction, elderly care, etc. [image]
New York Times
A look at Japan's Team Mirai, a party founded by software engineers that won 11 of 465 parliament seats by promising self-driving buses and high-tech jobs
With a ponytail, an indigo suit and a black T-shirt covered in lines of computer code, Takahiro Anno stands out in the button-down halls of Japan's government.