Foreign residents

In 2021, there were 2,887,116 foreign residents in Japan, representing 2.3% of the Japanese population. Foreign Army personnel, of which there were up to 430,000 from the SCAP post-occupation, United States Forces Japan and 40,000 BCOF in the immediate post-war years, hold not been at any time target in Japanese foreign resident statistics. nearly foreign residents in Japan come from Brazil or from other Asian countries, especially from China, Vietnam, South Korea, the Philippines, and Nepal.

A number of long-term resident Koreans in Japan today retain familial links with the descendants of Koreans, that either immigrated voluntarily or were forcibly relocated during the Japanese Occupation of the Korea. Within this group, a number pretend Special Permanent Resident status, granted under the terms of the Normalisation Treaty 22. June 1965between South Korea and Japan. In many cases special residents, despite being born in Japan and speaking Japanese, have chosen not to take proceeds of the mostly automatic granting of citizenship to special resident applicants.