
The Japan Times: June 12, 2004
Foreigners accounted for a record 1.5 percent of Japan's total population as of the end of last year.
The Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau said in a report Friday that the number of registered foreigners grew 45 percent over the past 10 years, compared with a 2.1 percent growth in the general population.....
By nationality, Koreans topped the list at 614,000, or 32.1 percent of the total, following by Chinese at 462,000, or 24.1 percent, and Brazilians at 275,000, or 14.3 percent. Filipinos were next at 185,000, or 9.7 percent, followed by Peruvians at 54,000, or 2.8 percent...
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