Foreigners Are Shoring Up Japan's Shrinking Population
There are a record 2.3 million foreigners living in Japan
By James Mayger
July 9, 2017, 3:00 PM CDT
While the latest data shows that the number of Japanese shrank by a record in 2016, the demographic picture isn’t quite so bleak when you include the growing ranks of foreigners.
There are now 2.3 million foreigners resident in Japan. And their numbers grew by almost 150,000 last year, halving the decline in number of people living in the nation.
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It still seems like the amount of foreigners is a very small portion of the total population. However, the projected population decline of Japan has been discussed for years.
