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A study that was conducted in 1995 estimated that the Chinese population of Japan numbered 150,000, among whom between 50,000 and 100,000 could speak Chinese. [8] In 2000, Japanese governmental statistics revealed that there were 335,575 Chinese people in Japan. [9]
This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, ... China (29.9%) Indonesia ... Japan: 2.6%: 123,294,513:
Compared to the findings of July 1993 as well as in July 2000, the population density has greatly increased, from 50% of the population living on 2% of the land to 77%. However, as the years have progressed since the last recordings of the population, Japan's population has decreased, raising concern about the future of Japan.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the number of foreign residents in Japan has steadily increased since 1949. As of June 2024, the number of foreign residents in Japan exceeded 3.41 million. [1] With a total estimated population of 123.7 million in 2024, [2] foreign residents accounted for approximately 2.76 per cent of the total population.
In 2006, Japanese/Filipino marriages were the most frequent of all international marriages in Japan. [15] As of March 12, 2011, the Filipino population of Japan was 305,972. [16] As of April 1, 2020, the number of Filipinos in Japan is estimated at 325,000. [17]
Overseas Chinese people are people of Chinese origin who reside outside Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). [20] As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. [8]
East Asian people (also East Asians or Northeast Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. [1] The total population of all countries within this region is estimated to be 1.677 billion and 21% of the world's population in 2020. [2]
Although Min Chinese or Fuzhounese, the majority of Min Chinese, is spoken natively by a third of the Chinese population there, it is not used as a lingua franca because speakers of other dialect groups do not learn Min. [36] In Richmond (part of the Greater Vancouver metropolitan area in Canada), 55% of the population is Chinese. [37]