Chinese now Japan's number one minority – China News

www.business-standard.com — Chinese-speaking residents — from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan — accounted for 28.2 per cent of Japan's 2.15 million registered foreigners at the end of December, while Koreas dropped to 27.6 per cent. As more Chinese have come to Japan, many Koreans — often longtime residents of Japan — have increasingly taken Japanese citizenship, said Koji Nakagawa, a spokesman at Japan's Immigration Bureau.

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