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>Ethnic groups: Japanese 98.1%, Chinese 0.5%, Korean 0.4%, other 1% (includes Filipino, Vietnamese, and Brazilian) https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the
by swebs 7y ago
>Ethnic groups: Japanese 98.1%, Chinese 0.5%, Korean 0.4%, other 1% (includes Filipino, Vietnamese, and Brazilian)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoIt's true that Japan has a lot more ethnic homogenity than most countries, but this is is a misleading statistic. The Japanese census considers all people with Japanese citizenship to be simply "Japanese" regardless of their race.
- yorwba 7y agoThere have been 559,789 naturalizations total from 1952 to 2018: http://www.moj.go.jp/content/001180510.pdf http://www.moj.go.jp/content/001180510.pdf Many of those have probably died by now, but likely not without leaving a few descendants. So there may be a million or so Japanese citizens with a family background involving migration within the last few generations. Ainu, Ryukyuans and Burakumin should probably also be counted as "non-homogeneous", even though they're not "foreign".
- NalNezumi 7y agobesides from naturalizations, there's also quite few half-japanese people that acquire citizenship by birth-right. Although I'm pretty sure the wide consensus in Japan is that half-japanese is considered non-japanese, so the number would go down a little bit more.
- acidtoyman 7y agoDo you have a source for that? It's certainly not the legal case.