When Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, secured a landslide victory in February's general election — vindicating her economic agenda and hardline stance on immigration and China in just over a hundred days in office — Mr Li, a Chinese businessman resident in Japan on an investor visa, felt a familiar knot of anxiety return. Beyond the business climate for Chinese enterprises in Japan, he worried about his daughter, currently enrolled in a Japanese primary school, and whether an increasingly hostile immigration policy might one day force her back to China to complete her education.
