As of 2019 June 786,241 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.
Figure : Rate of Chinese population by prefecture (per 1,000 residents)
The population rate is high in the red prefecture, low in blue prefectures.
Table: Population of Chinese People in Japan by Prefecture, 2019
Prefecture | Chinese Population | Per 1000 residents |
Tokyo | 226,319 | 16.4 |
Saitama | 73,288 | 10.0 |
Chiba | 54,486 | 8.7 |
Kanagawa | 72,896 | 7.9 |
Osaka | 65,394 | 7.4 |
Aichi | 50,049 | 6.6 |
Kyoto | 15,679 | 6.1 |
Gifu | 11,833 | 5.9 |
Hiroshima | 14,480 | 5.1 |
Toyama | 5,134 | 4.9 |
Nagano | 9,756 | 4.7 |
Ibaraki | 13,183 | 4.6 |
Mie | 8,168 | 4.6 |
Yamanashi | 3,713 | 4.5 |
Hyogo | 23,983 | 4.4 |
Kagawa | 3,999 | 4.2 |
Okayama | 7,883 | 4.2 |
Ishikawa | 4,636 | 4.1 |
Fukuoka | 20,511 | 4.0 |
Shiga | 5,541 | 3.9 |
Fukui | 3,037 | 3.9 |
Gumma | 7,627 | 3.9 |
Tochigi | 6,875 | 3.5 |
Shizuoka | 12,000 | 3.3 |
Ehime | 3,942 | 2.9 |
Tokushima | 1,968 | 2.7 |
Miyagi | 5,871 | 2.5 |
Oita | 2,824 | 2.5 |
Nara | 3,148 | 2.4 |
Niigata | 5,107 | 2.3 |
Kumamoto | 3,814 | 2.2 |
Yamaguchi | 2,956 | 2.2 |
Yamagata | 2,263 | 2.1 |
Shimane | 1,372 | 2.0 |
Fukushima | 3,701 | 2.0 |
Hokkaido | 10,460 | 2.0 |
Okinawa | 2,741 | 1.9 |
Nagasaki | 2,476 | 1.8 |
Saga | 1,377 | 1.7 |
Tottori | 929 | 1.7 |
Iwate | 1,997 | 1.6 |
Kochi | 1,133 | 1.6 |
Wakayama | 1,374 | 1.5 |
Kagoshima | 2,252 | 1.4 |
Miyazaki | 1,460 | 1.4 |
Akita | 1,134 | 1.2 |
Aomori | 1,347 | 1.1 |
Unknown | 125 | - |
Total | 786,241 | 6.2 |
Source is Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. 在留外国人統計(旧登録外国人統計)
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