No. of foreign residents in Japan hits record high for 3rd year

The number of foreign nationals residing in Japan reached over 3.7 million as of the end of 2024, up 10.5 percent from a year before and hitting a record high for the third straight year, government data showed Friday.The number of people granted refugee status dropped by 113 to 190. But 1,661 -- mainly Ukrainians -- were given status under "complementary protection," a new program that allows those fleeing conflict to stay in Japan, similarly to those granted refugee status, by in principle giving them long-term resident visas.Of the 3,768,977 foreign nationals who were residing in Japan a…READ FULL ARTICLE