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No. of foreign residents in Japan hits record high
Japantoday > national Saturday, June 18, 2005 at 05:25 JST
TOKYO ---The number of foreign nationals registered as residents in Japan came to 1,973,747 as of the end of last year, setting a new record for the 36th consecutive year, the Immigration Bureau said in a report Friday. The number increased by 58,717 from a year earlier, and accounted for 1.55% of the entire population in Japan....
Koreans, including those who were born in Japan, topped the list with 607,419, making up 30.8% of the total...