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Foreigners Are Shoring Up Japan’s Shrinking Population

There are a record 2.3 million foreigners living in Japan
Foreigners Slow Japan's Population Decline
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While the latest data shows that the number of Japanese shrank by a record in 2016, the demographic picture isn’t quite so bleak when you include the growing ranks of foreigners.

There are now 2.3 million foreigners resident in Japan. And their numbers grew by almost 150,000 last year, halving the decline in number of people living in the nation.