Foreign residents make up 9.5% of people in 20s in Japan

Foreign residents made up 9.5 percent of the people in their 20s in Japan in 2025, more than double the 4.1 percent in 2015, a Kyodo News analysis of government data showed Saturday, highlighting their potential role in sustaining the country's social welfare system amid a shrinking population of young Japanese.The percentage may rise further as the government has presented a draft plan to a panel of experts to accept up to about 426,000 foreign workers over two years from fiscal 2027 with the aim of filling the labor shortage.According to the Basic Resident Register data, foreign residents…READ FULL ARTICLE