to visa-exemption measures being implemented with regard to R.O.Korea for those foreign nationals intending to engage in activities that may be performed under the status of residence of “Temporary Visitor”, the number of those found overstaying from R.O.Korea has been consistently decreasing since January 1, 1999. On the other hand, the number of those from Thailand had been steadily declining since May 1, 1993, but because of the impact of the substantial increase in the number of foreign nationals from Thailand newly entering Japan with the status of residence of “Temporary Visitor” due to the measure taken to deregulate visas in July 2013, the number of those from Thailand saw an increase of 682 (12.9%) to 5,959 when compared to January 1, 2015, which was an increase for two years running. In addition, with regard to the number of those from Viet Nam, the number had increased by 1,356 (55.3%) to 3,809 when compared to January 1, 2015, which was an increase for four consecutive years (References 36, 37).

Reference 36 Changes in the estimated number of foreign nationals overstaying the authorized period of stay by nationality/region

(People)

Date	May 1 1993	May 1 1994	May 1 1995	May 1 1996	January 1 1997	January 1 1998	January 1 1999	January 1 2000	January 1 2001	January 1 2002	January 1 2003	January 1 2004
Nationality/Region
Total	298,646	293,800	286,704	284,500	282,986	276,810	271,048	251,697	232,121	224,067	220,552	219,418
R.O.Korea	39,455	43,369	47,544	51,580	52,387	52,123	62,577	60,693	56,023	55,164	49,874	46,425
China	33,312	39,738	39,511	39,140	38,296	37,590	34,800	32,896	30,975	27,582	29,676	33,522
Thailand	55,383	49,992	44,794	41,280	39,513	37,046	30,065	23,503	19,500	16,925	15,693	14,334
Philippines	35,392	37,544	39,763	41,997	42,547	42,608	40,420	36,379	31,666	29,649	30,100	31,428
Viet Nam	852	869	453	448	231	731	880	1,092	1,550	2,021	2,697	3,582
Taiwan	7,457	7,871	7,974	8,502	9,409	9,430	9,437	9,243	8,849	8,990	9,126	7,611
Indonesia	2,969	3,198	3,205	3,481	3,758	4,692	4,930	4,947	5,315	6,393	6,546	7,246
Malaysia	30,840	20,313	14,511	11,525	10,390	10,141	9,989	9,701	9,651	10,097	9,442	8,476
Singapore	1,914	2,342	2,600	2,850	2,946	3,027	3,084	3,178	3,302	3,494	3,556	3,216
Brazil	2,210	2,603	3,104	3,763	5,026	4,334	3,288	3,266	3,578	3,697	3,865	4,728
Others	88,862	85,961	83,245	79,934	78,483	75,088	71,578	66,799	61,712	60,055	59,977	58,850

(People)

Date	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1	January 1
Nationality/Region	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Total	207,299	193,745	170,839	149,785	113,072	91,778	78,488	67,065	62,009	59,061	60,007	62,818
R.O.Korea	43,151	40,203	36,321	31,758	24,198	21,660	19,271	16,927	15,607	14,233	13,634	13,412
China	32,683	31,074	27,698	25,057	18,385	12,933	10,337	7,807	7,730	8,257	8,647	8,741
Thailand	12,787	10,352	8,460	7,314	6,023	4,836	4,264	3,714	3,558	4,391	5,277	5,959
Philippines	30,619	30,777	28,491	24,741	17,287	12,842	9,329	6,908	5,722	5,117	4,991	5,240
Viet Nam	3,916	4,071	3,959	3,362	2,527	1,531	1,221	1,014	1,110	1,471	2,453	3,809
Taiwan	6,760	6,696	6,347	6,031	4,950	4,889	4,774	4,571	4,047	3,557	3,532	3,543
Indonesia	7,169	6,926	6,354	5,096	3,126	1,820	1,265	1,037	1,073	1,097	1,258	2,228
Malaysia	7,431	6,822	6,397	4,804	2,986	2,661	2,442	2,237	2,192	1,819	1,788	1,763
Singapore	3,075	3,587	2,241	2,207	2,128	2,107	1,789	1,586	1,304	1,079	1,066	1,055
Brazil	4,905	2,762	2,286	2,297	1,939	1,645	1,536	1,290	1,075	1,013	988	983
Others	54,803	50,475	42,285	37,118	29,523	24,854	22,260	19,974	18,591	17,027	16,373	16,085

$ ^{*} $ “China” does not include China (Hong Kong) or China (others).