{"id":39,"date":"2005-06-21T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/japan\/2005\/06\/21\/2-million-foreigners-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2005-07-05T21:01:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T11:01:45","slug":"2-million-foreigners-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/live-in-japan\/2-million-foreigners-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"2 million foreigners in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are now nearly 2 million foreigners living in Japan. The Immigration Bureau released a report last week saying that there are 1,973,747 registered foreign nationals resident in Japan, representing 1.55% of the population. The Japanese government has a very strict definition of &#8220;foreigner&#8221; &#8212; many of these 2 million people were born and raised in Japan, but are still counted as foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Half the total is made up of Chinese and Koreans, with South America and the Philippines providing most of the rest. The percentage of foreigners in Tokyo was much higher &#8212; in Shibuya the proportion of foreigners was more than 5% when I last checked. Tokyo is more popular as a destination for people who move to Japan, as opposed to &#8220;foreigners&#8221; who were born in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are now nearly 2 million foreigners living in Japan. The Immigration Bureau released a report last week saying that there are 1,973,747 registered foreign nationals resident in Japan, representing 1.55% of the population. The Japanese government has a very strict definition of &#8220;foreigner&#8221; &#8212; many of these 2 million people were born and raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}