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Immigration To Japan
According to the Ministry of Justice, the number of foreign residents in Japan has steadily increased since 1949. As of December 2024, the number of foreign residents in Japan exceeded 3.76 million. With a total estimated population of 123.7 million in 2024, foreign residents accounted for approximately 3.04 per cent of the total population. History Due to geographic remoteness and periods of self-imposed isolation, the immigration, cultural assimilation and integration of foreign nationals into mainstream Japanese society has been comparatively limited. After 1945, unlike the guest worker immigration encouraged in other advanced industrial economies such as Germany, Japan was for the greater part able to rely on internal pools of rural labor to satisfy the manpower needs of industry. The demands of small business owners and demographic shifts in the late 1980s, however, gave rise for a limited period to a wave of tacitly accepted illegal immigration from countries as dive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brazilians In Japan
There is a significant community of Brazilians in Japan, consisting largely but not exclusively of Japanese Brazilians, Brazilians of Japanese descent. Brazilians with Japanese descent are commonly known as Nikkei Brazilians or Brazilian Japanese people (, , ''burajiru kei nihonjin''). They constitute the largest number of native Portuguese language in Asia, Portuguese speakers in Asia, greater than those of formerly Portuguese East Timor, Macau, Macao and Goa combined. Likewise, Brazil maintains its status as home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan. Migration history During the 1980s, the Japanese economic situation improved and achieved stability. Many Japanese Brazilians, mainly Japanese nationality law, Japanese citizenship holding first and second generation, went to Japan as contract workers due to Latin American debt crisis, economic problems in Brazil. They were termed "Dekasegi". In 1990, the Japanese government authorized the legal entry through visas of J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mongolians In Japan
There is a small community of Mongolians in Japan, representing a minor portion of emigration from Mongolia. As of December 2024, there were 21,240 registered Mongolian citizens residing in Japan, according to the Immigration Services Agency, up from 2,545 in 2003. Students International students form a large proportion of the registered population of Mongolians in Japan. The earliest Mongol exchange students, all three of them women, came to Japan in 1906, when Mongolia was still ruled by the Qing Dynasty. Japan was also a popular destination for students from Mengjiang (in today's Inner Mongolia) in the late 1930s and early 1940s; among them were several who would go on to become famous scholars, such as Chinggeltei. Japan and the Mongolian People's Republic officially agreed to send exchange students to each other in 1974; the first Mongolian student to arrive under the agreement came in 1976. , 1,006 Mongolian students were studying in Japanese institutions of higher educati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chōsen-seki
is a legal status assigned by the Japanese government to ethnic Koreans in Japan who do not have Japanese nationality and who have not registered as South Korean nationals. The status arose following the end of World War II, when many Koreans lost Japanese nationality. Most people with this status technically have both North Korean nationality and South Korean nationality under those countries' respective nationality laws, but since they do not have South Korean documents, and Japan does not recognize North Korea as a state, they are treated in some respects as being stateless. As of 2024 there were around 23,000 people with this status, compared to over 409,000 registered South Korean nationals in Japan. Background Chōsen-seki is a convention made by the Japanese government to register Korean residents in Japan shortly after the Surrender of Japan as if they had been stateless. The Korean people originally had Japanese citizenship during the Japanese occupation of the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cambodians In Japan
Cambodians in Japan consist of ethnic Khmer people that were born in or have immigrated to Japan. As of June 2024, there were 26,827 Cambodians living in Japan. History The first settlements of Cambodians in Japan were already in the 17th century when their first trade began. In 1953, when Japan and Cambodia established diplomatic relations, many Cambodian workers came to Japan. Since 2010s, the Cambodian population in Japan has increased due to the better Japanese visa policy for Cambodians. Most of them are students, factory workers and people who work in Cambodian or Thai restaurants. as both countries are monarchies, they have had good relations for many years. There are also many Cambodian festivals organised by Cambodian community in Japan, held mostly in Tokyo. From 23,750 Cambodians, almost 3,000 Cambodians resides in Kanagawa Prefecture alone making it the Prefecture with most Cambodians where most of them works in Tokyo or Yokohama. There were also many protests in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pakistanis In Japan
form the country's third-largest community of immigrants from a Muslim-majority country, trailing only the Indonesian community and Bangladeshi community. As of December 2024, official statistics showed 29,647 registered foreigners of Pakistani origin living in the country. There were a further estimated 3,414 illegal immigrants from Pakistan in Japan as of 2000. The average increase in the Pakistan population is about 2-3 persons per day. Migration history As early as 1950, only three years after the independence of Pakistan in 1947 which created the Pakistani state, there were recorded to be four Pakistanis living in Japan. However, Pakistani migration to Japan would not grow to a large scale until the 1980s. The later Pakistani migrants in Japan largely come from a ''muhajir'' background; their family history of migration made them consider working overseas as a "natural choice" when they found opportunities at home to be too limited. While Pakistanis saw North America as a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bangladeshis In Japan
Bangladeshis in Japan () form one of the smaller populations of foreigners in Japan. As of in December 2024, Japan's Ministry of Justice recorded 35,073 Bangladeshi nationals among the total population of registered foreigners in Japan. Migration history Bangladeshi labour migration to Japan, in common with that to other economically developed parts of East Asia, namely South Korea and Taiwan, is believed to have begun around 1985 after the inception of Bangladesh in 1971. Prospective workers would obtain student visas to enter into language schools, which would allow them to work legally up to 20 hours per week to support themselves; they used their period of study to put down roots in Japan and find more permanent full-time work. Such migration reached a peak in 1988, but dropped off sharply in 1989 as Japanese authorities tightened the requirements for obtaining student visas. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, deportations jumped sharply, with nearly five thousand in 1990 alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peruvian Migration To Japan
There were 49,247 Peruvian residents in Japan as of December 2024. The majority of them are descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru who have repatriated to Japan. Migration history In 1990, Japan introduced a new ethnicity-based immigration policy which aimed to encourage Japanese descendants overseas to come to Japan and fill the country's need for foreign workers. From 1992 to 1997, data from Peru's Ministry of the Interior showed Japan as the fourteenth-most popular destination for Peruvian emigrants, behind the Netherlands and ahead of Costa Rica. Among the expatriate communities in Japan, Peruvians accounted for the smallest share of those who returned to their homelands after the global recession began in 2008. In January 2013, a number of Peruvian organizations came together to form the Asociacion de Peruanos en Japon (Association of Peruvians in Japan), dedicated to facilitating integration into Japanese society. Media * International Press (newspaper) * IPC ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Indians In Japan
Indians in Japan consist of those with Japanese citizenship and those with foreign citizenship. As of December 2024, there were 53,974 Indian nationals living in Japan. In the 21st century, Indian migration to Japan has undergone a major increase, and Japan is seeing an influx of migrants from the South Asian nation. Indian nationals are the third largest nationality group from the subcontinent, preceded by Nepali and Burmese nationals and followed by Sri Lankans. A significant percentage of Indians in Japan are from northeast India. Although these may often have more East Asian face-shapes, they identify strongly with India and the Indian people and consider themselves to be Indian. They also have unique and long-standing cultural relations with Japan. People from other Asian countries, such as Nepal and Myanmar, may also have more East Asian face-shapes, but they also identify heavily with India and Indian people. A significant number of Indians in Japan also descend from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sri Lankans In Japan
Sri Lankans in Japan consist of Sri Lankan migrants that come to Japan, as well as their descendants. In December 2024, there were 63,472 Sri Lankans living in Japan. They are the fourth largest nationality group from South Asia after Myanmar, Nepalis and Indians. Japan is a major geopolitical partner of Sri Lanka, along with other major partners China, India and the United States. History Edo period and imperial Japan Ceylon, the name of the island since the Portuguese conquest, was one of the largest strongholds of the Dutch East India Company, which stretched across the Indian Ocean from Dejima in Nagasaki to Cape Town in South Africa. The Dutch-Ceylonese would continue to influence the country strongly throughout British Ceylon due to the expertise they had in administration, and retained strong connections with the trade infrastructure Dutch East India Company while assuming the connections of the British East India Company. Japan maintained links to Ceylon through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Thais In Japan
Thais in Japan consist of Thai migrants that come to Japan, as well as their descendants. In December 2024, there were 65,398 Thais living in Japan. History There were some contacts between the Ryūkyū Kingdom and the Ayutthaya Kingdom which dates far as the 15th century. Some trade between the two countries were successfully done during the 17th century, as the Japanese community in Ayutthaya began. However, when Japan made a policy of sakoku in 1639, the Japanese community began to fade out. In 1887, Japan and Siam began a new history with the Declaration of Amity and Commerce. Business and employment Some Thais in Japan run used car export businesses. This trend was believed to have begun in the late 1970s, when one Thai working in Japan sent a car back to his homeland. The potential for doing business in used cars also attracted more Thais to come to Japan in the 1990s. Notable Thai Temples in Japan * Wat Paknam Japan * Wat Buddharangsi Tokyo * Wat Phra Dhammakaya Osa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Americans In Japan
are citizens of the United States residing in Japan. As of December 2024, there were 66,111 American citizens registered as foreign residents of Japan, forming 1.75% of the total population of registered aliens, according to statistics from Japan's Ministry of Justice. This made Americans the tenth-largest group of foreign residents in Japan, having been surpassed in number by Vietnamese residents, Nepalese residents, Indonesian residents, Burmese residents, and Taiwanese residents since 2011. In addition to registered foreign residents, a significant number of American military personnel, civilian workers, and their dependents live in Japan due to the presence of the United States military in Japan under the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty. Approximately 70% of these American military personnel are stationed in Okinawa Prefecture. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as of March 31, 2013, there were 105,677 American citizens residing in Japan under one of these s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
