| Total population | |
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| 19,490 (in December, 2023) [1] | |
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| Japanese, Mongolian |
| Mongolians in Japan | |||||
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| Japanese name | |||||
| Kanji | 在日モンゴル人 | ||||
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| Cyrillic name | |||||
| Cyrillic | ЯпондахьМонголчууд | ||||
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| Romanisation | Yapon dahi Mongolchuud | ||||
There is a small community of Mongolians in Japan,representing a minor portion of emigration from Mongolia. As of December 2023,there were 19,490 registered Mongolian citizens residing in Japan,according to the Immigration Services Agency,up from 2,545 in 2003. [2]
International students form a large proportion of the registered population of Mongolians in Japan. [3] The earliest Mongol exchange students,all three of them women,came to Japan in 1906,when Mongolia was still ruled by the Qing Dynasty. [4] Japan was also a popular destination for students from Mengjiang (in today's Inner Mongolia) in the late 1930s and early 1940s;among them were several who would go on to become famous scholars,such as Chinggeltei. [5] [6] Japan and the Mongolian People's Republic officially agreed to send exchange students to each other in 1974;the first Mongolian student to arrive under the agreement came in 1976. As of May 2006 [update] ,1,006 Mongolian students were studying in Japanese institutions of higher education. [3]
Aside from Mongolian citizens,there were also estimated to be roughly 4,000 members of the Mongolian minority of China residing in Japan as of 2005 [update] . Like migrants from Mongolia proper,they also came mostly on student visas,beginning in the 1990s;they were sponsored by professors of Mongolian studies at Japanese universities. They are a close-knit community;they reside mostly in the Nerima and Sugamo areas of Tokyo and in many cases the same apartment has been occupied serially by successive migrants for more than a decade,with each passing the lease on to another migrant before leaving the country or moving on to different accommodation. [7]
Starting in 1991,Mongolians began to become especially prominent in sumo;as of 2005 [update] ,Mongolians composed roughly 5% of all ranked sumo wrestlers,making them more than 60% (37 out of 61) of non-Japanese rikishi in Japan. [8] [9] In a 2009 survey conducted by a Japanese statistical agency,of the four sumo wrestlers named as most famous by Japanese people,three were Mongolian. [10]
Chinese people in Japan (在日中国人/華人) include any people self-identifying as ethnic Chinese or people possessing Chinese citizenship living in Japan. People aged 22 or older cannot possess dual-citizenship in Japan, so Chinese possessing Japanese citizenship typically no longer possess Chinese citizenship. The term "Chinese people" typically refers to the Han Chinese, the main ethnic group living in China (PRC), Taiwan (ROC) and Singapore. Officially, China (PRC) is home to 55 additional ethnic minorities, including people such as Tibetans, though these people might not self-identify as Chinese. Han Chinese people have had a long history in Japan as a minority.
Filipinos in Japan formed a population of 322,046 in December 2023 individuals, making them Japan's fourth-largest foreign community, according to the statistics of the Philippines. Their population reached as high as 245,518 in 1998, but fell to 144,871 individuals in 2000 before beginning to recover slightly when Japan cracked down on human trafficking. In 2006, Japanese/Filipino marriages were the most frequent of all international marriages in Japan. As of 2016, the Filipino population in Japan was 237,103 according to the Ministry of Justice. Filipinos in Japan formed a population of 325,000 individuals at year-end 2020, making them Japan's third-largest foreign community along with Vietnamese, according to the statistics of the Philippine Global National Inquirer and the Ministry of Justice. In December 2021, the number of Filipinos in Japan was estimated at 276,615.
Nepali are the citizens of Nepal under the provisions of Nepali nationality law. The term Nepali usually refers to the nationality, that is, to people with citizenship of Nepal, while the people without Nepales citizenship but with roots in Nepal such as Nepali Americans are strictly referred to as Nepali Speaking Foreigners who are speakers of Nepali, Maithili or any of the other 128 Nepali languages but are now foreign citizens or of foreign nationality bearing passports and citizenship of the foreign nation. It is also not generally used to refer to non-citizen residents, dual citizens, and expatriates.
Indonesians in Japan form Japan's largest immigrant group from a Muslim-majority country. As of December 2023, Japanese government figures recorded 149,101 legal residents of Indonesian nationality.
There is a significant community of Brazilians in Japan, consisting largely but not exclusively of Brazilians of Japanese descent. Brazilians with Japanese descent are known as Nikkei Brazilians. They constitute the largest number of native Portuguese speakers in Asia, greater than those of formerly Portuguese East Timor, Macao and Goa combined. Likewise, Brazil maintains its status as home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan.
Vietnamese people in Japan form Japan's second-largest community of foreign residents ahead of Koreans in Japan and behind Chinese in Japan, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Justice. By in December 2023, there were 565,026 residents. The majority of the Vietnamese legal residents live in the Kantō region and Keihanshin area.
Americans in Japan are citizens of the United States residing in Japan. As of December 2023, there were 63,408 American citizens registered as foreign residents of Japan, forming 2.0% of the total population of registered aliens, according to statistics from Japan's Ministry of Justice. This made Americans the ninth-largest group of foreign residents in Japan, having been surpassed in number by Vietnamese residents, Nepalese residents, Indonesian residents, and Burmese residents since 2011.
Bangladeshis in Japan form one of the smaller populations of foreigners in Japan. As of in June 2023, Japan's Ministry of Justice recorded 24,940 Bangladeshi nationals among the total population of registered foreigners in Japan.
Pakistanis in Japan form the country's third-largest community of immigrants from a Muslim-majority country, trailing only the Indonesian community and Bangladeshi community. As of December 2023, official statistics showed 25,334 registered foreigners of Pakistani origin living in the country. There were a further estimated 3,414 illegal immigrants from Pakistan in Japan as of 2000. The average increase in the Pakistani population is about 2-3 persons per day.
Overseas Indonesians refers to Indonesians who live outside of Indonesia. These include citizens that have migrated to another country as well as people born abroad of Indonesian descent. According to Ministry of Law and Human Rights, more than 6 million Indonesians diaspora live abroad in 2023 this include ex-Indonesian citizens, foreign citizens who are children of Indonesian citizens, and children of ex-Indonesian citizens, illegal and undocumented workers.
There are in December 2023 49,114 Peruvians in Japan. The majority of them are descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru who have repatriated to Japan.
There is a population of Burmese people in Japan. In December 2023, there were 86,546 Burmese living in Japan.
The Portuguese language is spoken in Asia by small communities either in regions which formerly served as colonies to Portugal, notably Macau and East Timor where the language is official albeit not widely spoken, Lusophone immigrants, notably the Brazilians in Japan or by some Afro-Asians and Luso-Asians. In Larantuka, Indonesia and Daman and Diu, India, Portuguese has a religious connotation, according to Damanese Portuguese-Indian Association, there are 10 – 12,000 Portuguese speakers in the territory.
Nepalis in Japan comprise migrants from Nepal to Japan, including temporary expatriates and permanent residents, as well as their locally born descendants. As of December 2023, there are about 176,336 Nepalis living in Japan, which makes them the largest South Asian community in the country.
Japanese migration to Thailand has a long history and in recent years has grown. As of 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that Thailand has the fourth highest number of Japanese expatriates in the world after the United States, China and Australia. Bangkok, the home of two-thirds of all the registered Japanese residents in Thailand, has the second-largest Japanese expatriate population of any city in the world outside Japan, behind only Los Angeles. Japanese residents themselves suspect that their actual population number may be several times higher than the official figures, because many transient residents, especially those on long-term tourist visas, fail to register with Japanese consulates.
Monoethnicity is the existence of a single ethnic group in a given region or country. It is the opposite of polyethnicity.
Nigerians in Japan form a significant immigrant community. There are around 3,700 Nigerians living in the country. They mostly belong to the Nigerian Union in Japan, which is divided into sub-unions based on states of origin. The vast majority of Nigerians arrived in Japan from the mid-1980s onwards.
Britons in Japan make up one of the slightly larger foreign resident communities in Japan.
Asashōryū Akinori is a Mongolian former professional sumo wrestler (rikishi). He was the 68th yokozuna in the history of the sport in Japan, and in January 2003 he became the first Mongolian to reach sumo's highest rank. He was one of the most successful yokozuna ever. In 2005, he became the first wrestler to win all six official tournaments (honbasho) in a single year. Over his entire career, he won 25 top division tournament championships, placing him fourth on the all-time list.
Thais in Japan consist of Thai migrants that come to Japan, as well as their descendants. In December 2023, there were 61,771 Thais living in Japan.
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