My daughter will take the entrance examination of a private senior high school in February. Its fee is 20,000 yen ($166.67 €138.89). She wired the fee from the bank. The examination consists of three subjects, Japanese, math and English. M…

48,263 of Peruvian people live in Japan as of 2014 June. Peruvian people is the second largest latin American ethnic group in Japan, after Brazilian. Peruvian people mostly live in Kanto area and Tokai area. Figure : Rate of British popula…

As of 2014 June, 9884 people who are from Middle Eastern countries live in Japan. Big two ethnic groups are Iranian and Turk. Figure : Population of the people from Middle East Countries, who are living in Japan (by nationality) Nationalit…

177,953 of Brazilian people live in Japan as of 2014 June. The population rate is high in Tokai area (Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Gifu) and Gunma. Many Brazilian people work in automotive factories in those prefectures. Figure : Rate of Brazilia…

As of 2014 June, 50,515 of US citizens live in Japan. One third of them live in Tokyo. There are 133 US military bases/facilities in Japan. Especially, 33 bases are set in Okinawa. So the population rate of US citizens is high in Okinawa. …

As of 2014 June, 14,919 of people from the UK live in Japan. 38% of them live in Tokyo. Figure : Rate of British population by prefecture (per 1,000,000 residents) The population rate is high in the red prefecture, low in blue prefectures.…

My daughter will take the entrance examination of a Tokyo Metropolitan senior high school which is run by Tokyo Metropolitan government in February. She paid the fee this month. It cost 2200 yen ($18.33 €15.28). The test consists of five s…

According to government statistics, 85,499 of Vietnamese people live in Japan. Vietnamese people are the 5th largest minority ethnic group in Japan, after Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Brazilian. The population rate is high in Gunma (red c…

As of 2014 June, 42,270 of Thai people live in Japan. More than half of them live in Kanto (around Tokyo) area. Figure : Rate of Thai population by prefecture (per 100,000 residents) The population rate is high in the red prefecture, low i…

As of 2014 June, 213,923 of Philippine people live in Japan. Filipino is the third largest minority ethnic group in Japan. Chinese and Korean are 1st and 2nd.Their population rate is high in Tokai area (Gifu, Aichi, Shizuoka, Mie = orange …

11,481 of Pakistani people live in Japan as of 2014 June. Pakistani population is high in Toyama (red prefecture). There is a Pakistani town in Toyama and Pakistani people work as used car dealers for exporting used cars to Russia. Figure …

36,107 of Nepalis are living in Japan as of 2014 June. One third of them live in Tokyo. The population rate is relatively high in Fukuoka and Tochigi. Japanese language schools in Fukuoka are recruiting Nepali students aggressively. Among …

Nikkei press estimated 2013 frozen food market share in Japan. According to it, 977 billion yen of frozen foods were sold in 2013. The 2013 sales amount was increased by 8.7% from 2012. Figure : 2013 Frozen Food Market Share in Japan Manuf…

According to the government survey, 28,649 of Indonesian live in Japan as of 2014 June. Indonesian people live in Aichi most (3,098). In terms of the population rate, Ibaraki (red colored) has high percentage. There are Indonesian people c…

As of 2014 June, 23,411 of Indian people live in Japan. 39% of Indian people are living in Tokyo. 16% are living in Kanagawa. So, more than half of Indian people live in those two regions. Figure : Rate of Asian Indian population by prefec…

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 geograp…

As of 2014 June 648,734 Chinese people are living in Japan. The following data shows the rate of Chinese population by prefecture. Tokyo has the highest rate. One in a hundred is a Chinese in Tokyo. The famous China towns are located in Yo…

As of 2014 June, 508,561 Korean people are living in Japan. The following data shows the population of Korean people who are living in Japan. The Korean population is large in Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo) area. Figure : Rate of Korean popu…

Nikkei press reported 2013 ham and sausage market share in Japan. According to it, 587,201 ton of ham/sausage were consumed in 2013. The total sales were increased by 0.7% from 2012. The top supplier was NH Foods (Nippon Ham). Ham industry…

I bought a pack of Blu-ray blank discs at Yamada Denki for 1151 yen ($9.59 €7.99) to record TV shows. The pack includes 10 discs. Most of the discs in the store are made in Taiwan. Only Panasonic discs are made in Japan. In the Internet, m…

Last year on December 31st, my washing machine was broken. So I went to a store to buy a new washing machine. I chose Sharp ES-GE60P (image below). It cost 49,000 yen ($408.33 €340.28) including the recycling charge for the broken machine.…

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications releases the population of foreign residents every year. The data below shows the top 100 cities (wards) which have large foreign residents population, as of 2014 June. Big cities have wards …

From today, the new semester started at my kids' school. Common Japanese schools have three long term breaks; summer break, winter break and spring break. Each local city or each private school can determine the start date and the end date…

National Police Agency reported that 4113 of people were killed by car accidents in 2014. It includes the victims only who died within 24 hours after the accidents. The number of victims decreased by 260 from 2013, and the numbers are drop…

2014 October 12th, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology released the 2013 data of people's body measurements. The data below shows the average height of Japanese women by age. Table : Average Height of Japanese Wo…

Every year Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology gathers the data of people's body measurements. The following shows the average height of Japanese men, 2013 version. Table : Average Height of Japanese Men, 2013 Ag…

My kids have home assignments to practice calligraphy at the beginning of the year. I bought dedicated papers for it at Seiyu. It cost 203 yen ($1.69 €1.41). Plastic string = 108 yen ($0.90 €0.75) I bought a roll of plastic string for 108 …

A magazine Nikkei Trendy reported 2014 hot-selling products in Japan. According to it, the most successful product was Frozen (film). Here is the ranking of 2014 successful products in Japan. All images are linked to Amazon. No. 10 Abeno H…

In New Year's holiday, we Japanese eat osechi foods. Osechi foods are put in boxes like the following pictures. This year my mother bought a Mickey Mouse osechi for 10800 yen ($90.00 €73.47). I ate them at my family's reunion in the holida…

An anime site Anikore publishes several anime rankings. I would like to introduce its 2014 Autumn/Fall TV anime ranking by the number of reader's bookmarks. If a TV anime got many reader's bookmarks, its rank got higher. All images are lin…