page_title: Ethnic groups of Japan
section_title: Demographic
hierarchical_section_title: Ethnic groups of Japan / Demographic
caption_attribution_description: English: Foreigners in Japan by citizenship, 2000
context_page_description: According to census statistics in 2018, 97.8% of the population of Japan are Japanese, with the remainder being foreign nationals residing in Japan. The number of foreign workers has been increased dramatically in recent years, due to the aging population and the lack of labor forces. A news article in 2018 states that approximately 1 out of 10 young people residing in Tokyo are foreign nationals.
context_section_description: About 2.2% of Japan's total legal resident population are foreign citizens. Of these, according to 2018 data from the Japanese government, the principal groups are as follows.
  The above statistics do not include the approximately 30,000 U.S. military stationed in Japan, nor do they account for illegal immigrants. The statistics also do not take into account minority groups who are Japanese citizens such as the Ainu (an aboriginal people primarily living in Hokkaido), the Ryukyuans (from the Ryukyu Islands south of mainland Japan), naturalized citizens from backgrounds including but not limited to Korean and Chinese, and citizen descendants of immigrants. The total legal resident population of 2012 is estimated at 127.6 million.
caption: Citizenship of foreigners in Japan in 2000.
  Source: Japan Statistics Bureau[3]
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