INSIDE JAPAN from our view

Seventh night of violence in Paris   PARIS, France (CNN) -- Parisian suburbs have suffered a seventh straight night of violence as youths set fire to dozens of cars in at least nine areas to the north and east of the French capital. The disturbances damaged a shopping center, car dealership and primary school as more than 1,000 police were deployed to quell the unrest, which was triggered last week by the deaths of two teenagers.

 This would happen in Japan several decades later. How to cope with immigrants or how many immigrants we can endure is becoming our prior issue.

 Japan has rapidly grown older. The speed is the fastest not of all the countries but throughout man's history. The birth rate has dropped to less than 1.2. On the contrary, medication's advances make it possible for Japanese people to live the longest in the world. There are numerous people over 100 years old in Japan.

 And the number of difference between death people and born people is getting close these days. 2005 will be the historical year in which Japanese population turns to shrink for the first time. Many people fear about the economic recession which would come from the decline of the number of workable people in Japan.

 This population problem brings us a question whether or not it is better to accept immigrants from Asian Countries, such as Philippines, Thailand or China. Japan is made of thousands of tiny islands. The continuing isolation from other countries since the beginning of Japan has made Japanese nature which excludes as many foreigners as possible.

 Although many people think they do not like immigrations for the most parts, we know instinctively that we should accept them someday in near future. We are so reluctant to think the problem that we can not feel that violence in Paris is not our problems at all. But X day may come sooner than most of us are thinking now.