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Photo of a Famicom video game console with controller. The 1980s saw the firm establishment of anime and manga as major forms of entertainment for the Japanese public. Studio Ghibli, arguably the most famous and respected animation studio in Japan, was established by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki in 1985 following the success of Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
The censuses during independence 1969, 1980, 1991 were taken jointly for all races. The censuses 1980 and 1991 included housing information and in addition a larger questionnaire for a sample of the population. However, the questionnaires for the 1980 were lost and only provisional figures are available from this census.
Map of countries in 1989. This is a list of countries by population in 1989, providing an overview of the world population before the fall of the Iron Curtain.. While the population data [1] is almost exclusively dated 1989, political developments before the summer of 1990 are taken into account, including Yemeni unification and Namibian independence but not German reunification which was ...
Nigerians in Japan (在日ナイジェリア人, Zainichi Naijeriajin) form a significant immigrant community. There are around 3,954 Nigerians living in the country. They mostly belong to the Nigerian Union in Japan, which is divided into sub-unions based on states of origin. The vast majority of Nigerians arrived in Japan from the mid-1980s ...
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 ...
In the 1980s, with Japan's growing economy facing a shortage of workers willing to do so-called three K jobs (きつい, kitsui [difficult], 汚い, kitanai [dirty] and 危険, kiken [dangerous]), Japan's Ministry of Labor began to grant visas to ethnic Japanese from South America to come to Japan and work in factories.
The 1990s in Japan was the beginning of economic turmoil and recession for that particular nation, resulting in their Lost Decade. [1] While the Lost Decade would finally end in 2000 for Japan, [1] this would become the era where young Japanese salarymen were forced to find different lines of work.
About 90% of those practicing Islam in Japan are foreign-born migrants as of 2016. [269] As of 2018 there are an estimated 105 mosques and 200,000 Muslims in Japan, 43,000 of which were Japanese nationals. [270] Other minority religions include Hinduism, Judaism, and Baháʼí Faith, as well as the animist beliefs of the Ainu. [271]