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 Yokohama and Kobe.
Figure : Rate of Chinese population by prefecture (per 10,000 residents)
The population rate is high in the red prefecture, low in blue prefectures.
| Prefecture | Population | Rate per 10,000 residents |
| Tokyo | 158525 | 119 |
| Saitama | 50688 | 70 |
| Gifu | 14043 | 68 |
| Chiba | 41043 | 66 |
| Aichi | 46174 | 62 |
| Kanagawa | 54658 | 60 |
| Osaka | 50539 | 57 |
| Hiroshima | 14148 | 50 |
| Toyama | 5354 | 50 |
| Fukui | 3927 | 49 |
| Nagano | 10313 | 49 |
| Mie | 8669 | 47 |
| Ibaraki | 13287 | 45 |
| Kyoto | 11822 | 45 |
| Okayama | 8641 | 45 |
| Hyogo | 23100 | 42 |
| Yamanashi | 3496 | 41 |
| Ishikawa | 4658 | 40 |
| Fukuoka | 19675 | 39 |
| Kagawa | 3732 | 38 |
| Gunma | 7469 | 38 |
| Tochigi | 7067 | 36 |
| Tokushima | 2681 | 35 |
| Shiga | 4756 | 34 |
| Shizuoka | 11872 | 32 |
| Ehime | 4477 | 32 |
| Oita | 3516 | 30 |
| Shimane | 1906 | 27 |
| Kumamoto | 4605 | 26 |
| Miyagi | 5659 | 24 |
| Yamaguchi | 3366 | 24 |
| Tottori | 1350 | 23 |
| Nara | 3172 | 23 |
| Yamagata | 2577 | 23 |
| Niigata | 5175 | 22 |
| Nagasaki | 2985 | 21 |
| Iwate | 2451 | 19 |
| Fukushima | 3672 | 19 |
| Saga | 1572 | 19 |
| Hokkaido | 9909 | 18 |
| Kagoshima | 2858 | 17 |
| Kochi | 1197 | 16 |
| Miyazaki | 1779 | 16 |
| Wakayama | 1474 | 15 |
| Akita | 1481 | 14 |
| Okinawa | 1573 | 11 |
| Aomori | 1325 | 10 |
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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