Statistics on foreigners and Japan

[Harvey]

Hey guys,

Could someone point me to a place or places, where I can get statstics on the number of foreigners in Japan?

I'm also looking for info on... the number of students studying Japanese, and other related topics.

Any leads?

 

[Maciamo]

Check this : Japan Fact Sheet

 

[TwistedMac]

alot like the jref one: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Japan

alot of history and stuff.. too much for me to look through for facts on what you ask though, what with my very limited attention span

 

[Mike Cash]

Hey guys,

Could someone point me to a place or places, where I can get statstics on the number of foreigners in Japan?

I'm also looking for info on... the number of students studying Japanese, and other related topics.

Any leads?

I recently read there are approximately 1.9 million registered foreigners in Japan. Keep in mind that the 1.9 million includes a large percentage of ethnic Koreans (and some Chinese, I believe) who were born in Japan and have lived their entire lives here.

 

[Harvey]

Highlights from Open Doors 2003: Note: Additional statistics are available on IIE's website at $name.

India is the leading place of origin for international students (74,603, up 12%), followed by #2 China (64,757, up 2%), #3 Korea (51,519, up 5%), #4 Japan (45,960, down 2%), #5 Taiwan (28,017, down 3%), #6 Canada (26,513, unchanged), #7 Mexico (12,801, up 2%), #8 Turkey (11,601, down 4%), #9 Indonesia (10,432, down 10%), #10 Thailand (9,982, down 14%), #11 Germany (9,302, down 3%), #12 Brazil (8,388, down 7%), #13 UK (8,326, down 1%), #14 Pakistan (8,123, down 6%), and #15 Hong Kong (8,076, up 4%).

Hey guys, I found this info on the opendoors site, does anyone have an idea on where I could find the same data, but, with Japan as the target country?

I think Im going to need to ask a Japanese universities study abroad office on this one...

 

[Mike Cash]

This might help a bit:

法務省

 

[Harvey]

Great!

Wow! This is the stuff I'm looking for!

Dude, you're awesome. Thank you so much.

 

[Maciamo]

Just in case you didn't see it, there was a link on the Japan Fact Sheet I refered, with an even more complete data (Japan statistical bureau) in English ! However that is an Excel file (so if you don't have MS Office, you can't open it).

 

[Harvey]

I did miss that, thanks!

 

[Grandpa Frank]

Bump it up.

The links still seem to work. Some interesting facts and info here.

Uncle Frank