42,000 foreigners got boot in 2002 for visa violations

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The number of foreign nationals forced to leave Japan last year totaled 41,935, up 2.9 percent from the previous year, with nearly 80 percent of them found to be illegally working in the country, according to an immigration document released by the Justice Ministry.