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"About 2.2% of Japan's total legal resident population are foreign citizens" [0] "Japanese people make up 98.1%, Chinese 0.5%, Korean 0.4%, and other 1% (inclu
by arkitaip 6y ago
"About 2.2% of Japan's total legal resident population are foreign citizens" [0]
"Japanese people make up 98.1%, Chinese 0.5%, Korean 0.4%, and other 1% (includes Filipino, Vietnamese, and Brazilian) of people living in Japan, according to the CIA World Handbook" [1]
So Japan is exactly as ethnically homogenous as you would think.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_Japan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_Japan
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Japan
- paddez 6y ago> About 2.2% of Japan's total legal resident population are foreign citizens You've conflated "citizenship" with "ethnicity".
- andi999 6y agoNormally that is a valid point, but for Japan there is an enormous overlap.
- b3kart 6y ago> enormous How enormous? We wouldn’t need words like that if we looked at the right numbers.
- EE84M3i 6y agohttps://www.turning-japanese.info/2016/09/totals.html https://www.turning-japanese.info/2016/09/totals.html says: > As of 2015, a total of almost 581,000 people have become legally Japanese since the fall of the shogunate and the rise of constitutional "westernized" Japan. This seems consistent with other sources I found while doing a quick search. This suggests less than 1% of the number of citizens of japan was not born a citizen. Of course, some of those people will have children and those children's ethnicity could be not Japanese ethnically (or partially) but still the number of citizens of Japan that are not ethnically Japanese is quite small, and the number of citizens of Japan that are not ethnically east asian is much smaller still.
- andi999 6y agoAlso a lot of the Koreans in Japan migrated before 1940, peak in 1930. So the Koreans taking up citizenship are often third generation living in Japan, after beeing culturally fully integrated. So according to your numbers it would be fair to put the 'real foreigners' who took citizenship in the 0,1 to 0,3% range.
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- nvarsj 6y agoDid you read the article? The census considers anyone with Japanese citizenship to be "Japanese". Therefore it's useless as a measure of ethnic diversity.
- TacticalCoder 6y agoI don't think it's useless at all in that Japan is one of the hardest country on earth to get citizenship. I've got family in Japan. All you need to do is to go to Japan to see that it's very "japanese". You can get residency semi-easily but getting citizenship is extremely hard. It's not the EU or the US where a huge lot of "foreigners" can become citizen.
- newacct583 6y agoNote also that Japanese law implements blood citizenship and not birthright citizenship. Domestically born children of immigrants remain immigrants, in general.
- varjag 6y agoIf by immigrants you mean immigrant non-citizen residents, that's how it is in most of the world.
- newacct583 6y agoVery notably not in the US, however. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
- leons_yarn 6y agoBecause of our history of slavery and settler colonialism more generally. The circumstances differ because of our somewhat unique historical circumstances, although some European countries enacted similar measures for their former colonies.
- mindwok 6y agoThe census figure quoted in these wiki articles is exactly the statistic the author is refuting in the start of this article.
- kome 6y agono, you really missed the point of the article: citizenship is not ethnicity