Is this enough to offset the decreasing population?
Most from asian countries and brazilians, so it’s good.
But can they speak Engrish?
Due to the way that “foreign” is commonly used to mean “not ethnically Japanese” in conversations about Japan, it’s important to note whenever this sort of thing comes up that “foreign population” in articles like this refers to “people living in Japan without Japanese citizenship,” so it doesn’t include people who have naturalized, their children, or other mixed-heritage Japanese people.
The Immigration Services Agency does not take a survey of Japanese citizen’s ethnicity, and Japan does not include ethnic/racial demographic questions in its national census, which means there is no official data on ethnic minorities who hold Japanese nationality.
In 10 years 1 more foreigner will be living there around Osaka or Nagoya
Still only about 3% of the total population. The article also notes that most of them are Chinese/Vietnamese/Korean, which means that to some degree they can fly under the radar. As for western foreigners, we’re still at around 1% of the total population.
And peanutbutterchicken AINT happy.
Ahh yes. More people to blame.
So I’ve been debating with some of my friends at work that Japan’s ethnic/cultural debates may soon turn into racial debates when there comes a time that many people are haafu or ethnically non-Japanese but were born and lived in Japan their whole lives so are therefore culturally Japanese.
I’m wondering if Japanese people will start the “how Japanese are you debate” racially ranking pure Japanese, half- or part-Japanese and non-Japanese, but I don’t think it will be like how the U.S. views race exactly.
It’ll be interesting to say the least.
This is mainly driven by an influx of workers from South and Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam and Nepal, although by nationality, China leads with, followed by Vietnam and South Korea.
I wish there would be more Greek chefs among those 3.8 million…
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Gonna be a lot of Hafus soon
Slowly it ll become 10%, 20% of the population
Is this enough to offset the decreasing population?
Most from asian countries and brazilians, so it’s good.
But can they speak Engrish?
Due to the way that “foreign” is commonly used to mean “not ethnically Japanese” in conversations about Japan, it’s important to note whenever this sort of thing comes up that “foreign population” in articles like this refers to “people living in Japan without Japanese citizenship,” so it doesn’t include people who have naturalized, their children, or other mixed-heritage Japanese people.
The Immigration Services Agency does not take a survey of Japanese citizen’s ethnicity, and Japan does not include ethnic/racial demographic questions in its national census, which means there is no official data on ethnic minorities who hold Japanese nationality.
In 10 years 1 more foreigner will be living there around Osaka or Nagoya
Still only about 3% of the total population. The article also notes that most of them are Chinese/Vietnamese/Korean, which means that to some degree they can fly under the radar. As for western foreigners, we’re still at around 1% of the total population.
And peanutbutterchicken AINT happy.
Ahh yes. More people to blame.
So I’ve been debating with some of my friends at work that Japan’s ethnic/cultural debates may soon turn into racial debates when there comes a time that many people are haafu or ethnically non-Japanese but were born and lived in Japan their whole lives so are therefore culturally Japanese.
I’m wondering if Japanese people will start the “how Japanese are you debate” racially ranking pure Japanese, half- or part-Japanese and non-Japanese, but I don’t think it will be like how the U.S. views race exactly.
It’ll be interesting to say the least.
This is mainly driven by an influx of workers from South and Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam and Nepal, although by nationality, China leads with, followed by Vietnam and South Korea.
I wish there would be more Greek chefs among those 3.8 million…