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In 2021, there were 2,887,116 foreign residents in Japan, representing 2.3% of the Japanese population. [86] Foreign Army personnel, of which there were up to 430,000 from the SCAP (post-occupation, United States Forces Japan) and 40,000 BCOF in the immediate post-war years, have not been at any time included in Japanese foreign resident ...
Many Americans served as foreign government advisors in Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912). Prior to World War II, it was a common practice for first-generation issei Japanese immigrants in the United States to send their nisei children, who were American citizens, to Japan for education.
According to census statistics in 2018, 97.8% of the population of Japan are Japanese citizens, with the remainder being foreign nationals residing in Japan. [1] The number of foreign workers has been increasing dramatically in recent years, due to the aging population and the lack of labor force. A news article in 2018 states that ...
Japan's total population was 125.41 million, down just over half a million people from a year earlier, and there was a 10.7% jump in foreign residents with addresses registered in Japan, the ...
The 2002 Russian census showed 835 people claiming Japanese ethnicity (nationality). [77] There is a sizable Japanese community in Düsseldorf, Germany [78] of nearly 8,400 (as of 2018) Japanese nationals (not ethnics). [79] Many of them are expatriates who stay there only for a few years. [80]
Filipinos in Japan formed a population of 325,000 individuals at year-end 2020, making them Japan's third-largest foreign community along with Vietnamese, according to the statistics of the Philippine Global National Inquirer and the Ministry of Justice. [5] [6] In December 2021, the number of Filipinos in Japan was estimated at 276,615. [7]
In 2015, 9,469 applications for Japanese citizenship were approved. The number of foreign residents in Japan applying to naturalize and obtain Japanese citizenship peaked in 2008 at more than 16,000, but declined to 12,442 in 2015. Processing of applications can take up to 18 months.
Own work, data taken from Volume 44, Table 1 of the Japanese census of 2020 from EStats Japan titled 'Population by Sex and Nationality - Japan, Prefectures, Municipalities' Author Tweedle