The Japan Times67%
Dubious immigration brokers helped spark business manager visa crackdown 65%
By Himari Semans0%
6/4/2026, 6:00:00 PM
Topics: Immigration, Visas
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Hasty Generalization, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 69% saturation with 80 hits. Analysis detected 595 faulty-reasoning hits from 116 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 59.5% and a BS Rank of 65% (7,656 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 65.00% of the article peer group.
Brokers and other firms in the “immigration business” — many of them Chinese — have long been suspected of being behind some foreign nationals obtaining business manager visas through questionable means, which prompted the government to tighten restrictions on the visa’s criteria last October.
The measures vary from establishing shell companies in Japan and using rental-property investments as the basis for visa applications, to naming the applicants’ children studying in Japan as company executives in order to establish a business.
Shady visa applications using shell companies can often be identified from the paperwork, with unusually small offices and addresses shared by multiple firms among the red flags.
Confirmation Bias
23.3%Confirmation Bias
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23.3%AuthorHimari Semans
5.7%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
1.9%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Availability Heuristic
31%Availability Heuristic
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31%AuthorHimari Semans
3.4%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Representativeness Heuristic
23.3%Representativeness Heuristic
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23.3%AuthorHimari Semans
3.5%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0.6%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Framing Effect
7.8%Framing Effect
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7.8%AuthorHimari Semans
13.4%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
4.6%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
6.8%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
1.2%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Negativity Bias
69%Negativity Bias
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69%AuthorHimari Semans
13.2%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
3.6%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0.1%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
37.9%In-Group Bias
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37.9%AuthorHimari Semans
1%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
37.9%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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37.9%AuthorHimari Semans
7.4%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0.8%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Primacy Effect
37.9%Primacy Effect
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37.9%AuthorHimari Semans
2.2%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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5.6%PublicationThe Japan Times
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0.9%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
1.2%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0.7%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Hasty Generalization
61.2%Hasty Generalization
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61.2%AuthorHimari Semans
8%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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1.4%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
0.7%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
8.2%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorHimari Semans
2.7%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
45.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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45.7%AuthorHimari Semans
1.9%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
37.9%Burden of Proof
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37.9%AuthorHimari Semans
3.3%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0.7%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
31%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
69%Biased Writer Voice
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69%AuthorHimari Semans
10.3%PublicationThe Japan Times
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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116 words analyzed.
Analysis
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