More Accessible and Beautifully Visualised.
Learn about the millions of immigrants who crossed the sea to the Land of the Rising Sun in search of a brighter future, and who now contribute to this beautiful country that so many call home.
Start with the big picture across all 4.13 million residents, or jump straight to a single community's story.
How many foreign residents live in Japan, who they are, where they settle, and how the picture has shifted over the past decade — population, visa types, prefectures and age, all in one place.
We are extremely thankful that these statistics exist publicly on Japan's statistics office website, but they're buried in spreadsheets and old scanned files, and easy to overlook. So, we would like to contribute by bringing them to light: to tell the story of migrants, clearly and humanely, through statistics.