20 Most Rented Foreign Movies in 2017 in Japan

A rental shop chain TSUTAYA reported the 20 most rented foreign movies from 2017 January to 2017 November in their chain. According to it, the most rented movie was Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The ranking does not include animation movies, like Zootopia.

The following list shows the top 20.

No.1

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

No.2

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

No.3

Jason Charles Bourne

No.4

La La Land

No.5

Beauty and the Beast

No.6

Suicide Squad

No.7

Inferno

No.8

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

No.9

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

No.10

The Fate of the Furious / Fast & Furious 8

No.11

Kong: Skull Island

No.12

Doctor Strange

No.13

Now You See Me 2

No.14

Gods of Egypt

No.15

xXx: Return of Xander Cage

No.16

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

No.17

Mechanic: Resurrection

No.18

X-Men: Apocalypse

No.19

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

No.20

The Jungle Book

I watched only Doctor Starnge.

Source is the website of Tsutaya. 
tsutaya.tsite.jp/ranking/year/2017/dvd-rental/yoga?sc_int=tsutaya_ranking-year_2017top_dvd-rental-yoga-2017detail

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Top 10 Best Selling Manga in Japan, 2017

A market research company Oricon published the top 10 ranking of best selling manga in 2017 (data from 2016 Dec. 5 to 2017 Nov. 27). According to it, ONE PIECE keeps the 1st place as usual.

Table: Top 10 Best Selling Manga in Japan, 2017 by author

Rank	Title	Title	2017 Sales (copies)	Author	Publisher	2016 Sales (copies)
1	ONE PIECE	ONE PIECE	11,495,532	Eiichiro Oda	Shueisha	12,314,326
2	進撃の巨人	Attack on Titan	6,622,781	Hajime Isayama	Kodansha	6,544,081
3	キングダム	Kingdom	6,184,214	Yasuhisa Hara	Shueisha	6,595,968
4	僕のヒーローアカデミア	My Hero Academia	5,852,310	Kohei Horikoshi	Shueisha	5,114,916
5	東京喰種-トーキョーグールー:re	Tokyo Ghoul:re	5,303,514	Sui Ishida	Shueisha	4,278,599
6	ハイキュー!!	Haikyū!!	5,067,939	Haruichi Furudate	Shueisha	6,474,394
7	七つの大罪	The Seven Deadly Sins	3,592,571	Nakaba Suzuki	Kodansha	5,115,573
8	ワンパンマン	One-Punch Man	3,223,151	Story: ONE, Art: Yusuke Murata	Shueisha	3,979,760
9	食戟のソーマ	Food Wars	2,792,441	Story: Yuto Tsukuda, Art: Shun Saeki, Providing the recipes for the series: Yuki Morisaki	Shueisha	3,477,128
10	マギ	Magi	2,713,074	Shinobu Ohtaka	Shogakukan	N/A

source is oricon.

The following is the ranking of 25 best selling manga books in 2017.

No.1

ONE PIECE 84

No.2

ONE PIECE 85

No.3

ONE PIECE 86

No.4

ONE PIECE 87

No.5

Attack on Titan 21

No.6

Attack on Titan 22

No.7

Attack on Titan 23

No.8

HUNTER×HUNTER 34

No.9

Tokyo Ghoul 9

No.10

Tokyo Ghoul 10

No.11

One-Punch Man 12

No.12

Haikyū!! 24

No.13

Haikyū!! 25

No.14

Haikyū!! 26

No.15

Tokyo Ghoul 11

No.16

Kingdom 45

No.17

Silver Spoon 14

No.18

Kingdom 47

No.19

Tokyo Ghoul 12

No.20

Kingdom 46

No.21

One-Punch Man 13

No.22

My Hero Academia 12

No.23

Kingdom 48

No.24

March Comes in Like a Lion 13

No.25

Haikyū!! 27

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Number of foreign workers in Japan, 2016

As of 2016 October 1,083,769 workers worked in Japan. The following data show the number of foreign workers by their nationality. Under the Employment Measures Act, each employer has to report the number of hired foreign workers to the job-placement office. The following data is the reported figure. It does not match the actual number of foreign workers.

Nationality	Workers
Chinese	344,658
Vietnamese	172,018
Filipino	127,518
Brazilian	106,597
Nepali	52,770
Korean	48,121
American	28,976
Peruvian	26,072
Others	138,660

Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/houdou/0000148933.html

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