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Vietnamese continue to be second largest foreign community in Japan

Vietnamese continued to be the second biggest foreign community in Japan after China, despite a 3.4 percent drop in 2021, according to the the Immigration Services Agency of Japan (ISA).
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Tokyo (VNA) – Vietnamese continued to be thesecond biggest foreign community in Japan after China, despite a 3.4percent drop in 2021, according to the the Immigration Services Agency of Japan(ISA).

According to the agency, the number of Vietnamese people inJapan reached 432,934, accounting for 15.7 percent of the total foreigners inthe country.

The Republic of Korea came third with a community that madeup 14.8 percent of total foreigners in Japan, followed by those from thePhilippines and Brazil with 10.5 percent and 7.4 percent respectively.

As of the end of 2021, Japan had hosted over 2.76 millionforeigners, down 4.4 percent from the same period last year, mostly because oftighter border management due to COVID-19 pandemic.

The agency reported that last year, the number of foreigners who were requestedto leave Japan for violating immigration regulations fell by 1,328 to 4,122./.
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