Population of Taiwanese People in Japan, 2014
36,965 of Taiwanese people are living in Japan as of 2014 June. One third of them are living in Tokyo. The population rate of Taiwanese is relatively high in Okinawa, comparing to Korean and mainland Chinese. Okinawa and Taiwan are geographically close.
Figure : Rate of Taiwanese population by prefecture (per 100,000 residents)
The population rate is high in the red prefecture, low in blue prefectures.
| Prefecture | Population | Rate per 100,000 residents |
| Tokyo | 12676 | 95 |
| Yamanashi | 399 | 47 |
| Tochigi | 893 | 45 |
| Osaka | 3900 | 44 |
| Kanagawa | 3682 | 41 |
| Chiba | 2507 | 40 |
| Ibaraki | 1075 | 37 |
| Kyoto | 959 | 37 |
| Okinawa | 442 | 31 |
| Saitama | 2197 | 30 |
| Nagano | 542 | 26 |
| Hyogo | 1310 | 24 |
| Aichi | 1490 | 20 |
| Nara | 250 | 18 |
| Gunma | 295 | 15 |
| Shizuoka | 475 | 13 |
| Mie | 226 | 12 |
| Fukuoka | 568 | 11 |
| Miyagi | 242 | 10 |
| Toyama | 107 | 10 |
| Ishikawa | 107 | 9 |
| Kumamoto | 164 | 9 |
| Hokkaido | 472 | 9 |
| Shiga | 121 | 9 |
| Oita | 98 | 8 |
| Hiroshima | 202 | 7 |
| Okayama | 137 | 7 |
| Nagasaki | 97 | 7 |
| Yamagata | 77 | 7 |
| Niigata | 157 | 7 |
| Kagoshima | 110 | 7 |
| Fukui | 52 | 7 |
| Wakayama | 63 | 6 |
| Tottori | 37 | 6 |
| Yamaguchi | 86 | 6 |
| Gifu | 121 | 6 |
| Kochi | 43 | 6 |
| Fukushima | 95 | 5 |
| Ehime | 66 | 5 |
| Iwate | 59 | 5 |
| Tokushima | 35 | 5 |
| Kagawa | 43 | 4 |
| Akita | 45 | 4 |
| Saga | 34 | 4 |
| Miyazaki | 32 | 3 |
| Aomori | 38 | 3 |
| Shimane | 13 | 2 |
Source is Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 在留外国人統計
www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/List.do?lid=000001127507
www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/Xlsdl.do?sinfid=000027237251
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