Britons in Japan make up one of the slightly larger foreign resident communities in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
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Overview
As of June 2022, according to data released by the
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Immigration Bureau, there were 17,311 people from the
United Kingdom
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who were classified as either permanent or long-term residents in Japan.
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Professional associations
The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan
The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes trade and aims to strengthen business ties between the UK and Japan. The BCCJ, which marks its 70th anniversary in 2018, is a private membership or ...
is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes trade and networking opportunities for member firms and business professionals living and working in Japan.
Education
The British School in Tokyo
The British School in Tokyo (BST; ブリティシュ・スクール・イン東京 ''Buritishu Sukūru in Tōkyō'') is an international school in central Tokyo with over 1,100 students from over 65 nationalities. BST takes students aged 3–18 t ...
provides an English language based educational curriculum for students of over 50 different nationalities and serves a number of children of British heritage living in the city.
See also
* United Kingdom–Japan relations
United may refer to:
Places
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Arts and entertainment Films
* ''United'' (2003 film), a Norwegian film
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* Japanese in the United Kingdom
The include British citizens or permanent residents of Japanese birth, ancestry or citizenship as well as expatriate business professionals and their dependents on limited-term employment visas, students, trainees and young people participating ...
* British Embassy, Tokyo
The British Embassy, Tokyo (駐日英国大使館 ''Chūnichi Eikoku Taishikan'') is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in Japan, with the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Japan being the chief of mission. The embassy compound m ...
References
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British diaspora in Asia
European diaspora in Japan
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...