Taking a look at the changes after May 1, 1993, although the number of foreign nationals newly entering Japan significantly increased owing to visa waiver being implemented with regard to R.O.Korea for those foreign nationals intending to engage in activities under the status of residence of “Temporary Visitor”, the number of those from R.O.Korea overstaying their period of stay has been consistently decreasing since January 1, 1999. On the other hand, the number of those from Thailand overstaying their authorized period of stay had steadily been declining since May 1, 1993, but the number saw and increase of 548 (9.2%) to 6,507 when compared to January 1, 2016, which was an increase for three year running. This was because of the impact of the substantial increase in number of foreign nationals from Thailand newly entering Japan with the status of residence of “Temporary Visitor”, which was influenced by measures such as the relaxation of visa issuance enforced in July 2013. In addition, the number of those from Viet Nam overstaying their authorized period of stay increased by 1,328 (34.9%) to 5,137 when compared to January 1, 2016, which was an increase for five 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	January 1 2005
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	207,299
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	43,151
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	32,683
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	12,787
Viet Nam	852	869	453	448	231	731	880	1,092	1,550	2,021	2,697	3,582	3,916
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	30,619
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	6,760
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	7,169
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	7,431
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	3,075
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	4,905
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	54,803

Date Nationality/ Region	January 1 2006	January 1 2007	January 1 2008	January 1 2009	January 1 2010	January 1 2011	January 1 2012	January 1 2013	January 1 2014	January 1 2015	January 1 2016	January 1 2017
Total	193,745	170,839	149,785	113,072	91,778	78,488	67,065	62,009	59,061	60,007	62,818	65,270
R.O.Korea	40,203	36,321	31,758	24,198	21,660	19,271	16,927	15,607	14,233	13,634	13,412	13,265
China	31,074	27,698	25,057	18,385	12,933	10,337	7,807	7,730	8,257	8,647	8,741	8,846
Thailand	10,352	8,460	7,314	6,023	4,836	4,264	3,714	3,558	4,391	5,277	5,959	6,507
Viet Nam	4,071	3,959	3,362	2,527	1,531	1,221	1,014	1,110	1,471	2,453	3,809	5,137
Philippines	30,777	28,491	24,741	17,287	12,842	9,329	6,908	5,722	5,117	4,991	5,240	5,082
Taiwan	6,696	6,347	6,031	4,950	4,889	4,774	4,571	4,047	3,557	3,532	3,543	3,887
Indonesia	6,926	6,354	5,096	3,126	1,820	1,265	1,037	1,073	1,097	1,258	2,228	2,222
Malaysia	6,822	6,397	4,804	2,986	2,661	2,442	2,237	2,192	1,819	1,788	1,763	1,761
Singapore	3,587	2,241	2,207	2,128	2,107	1,789	1,586	1,304	1,079	1,066	1,055	1,046
Brazil	2,762	2,286	2,297	1,939	1,645	1,536	1,290	1,075	1,013	988	983	959
Others	50,475	42,285	37,118	29,523	24,854	22,260	19,974	18,591	17,027	16,373	16,085	16,558

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