{"id":1249,"date":"2025-07-13T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2025-07-13T06:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:48:39","slug":"the-convenient-map-for-foreign-residents-has-updated-statistics-on-foreign-residents-as-of-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Convenient Map for Foreign Residents&#8221; has updated statistics on foreign residents (as of December 2024)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the &#8220;Convenient Map for Foreign Residents&#8221;?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/map.japan-workers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Convenient Map for Foreign Residents<\/a>&#8221; is useful information for foreigners working and living in Japan provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nici.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nishiyama Intellectual Components Co., Ltd<\/a>. It mainly lists essential and useful institutions for foreigners working and living in Japan, such as government offices, administrative scriveners who support residence applications, specific skills registration support organizations, and medical institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statistics on foreign residents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Convenient Map of Foreign Residents&#8221; shows the number of foreign residents by municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to a change in immigration policy in response to the declining birthrate and aging population (expanding the number of foreign residents with specific skills, etc.), the number of foreign residents is on the rise nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To visualize this, a graph is shown comparing the past periods. (For example, the proportion of foreign residents in Ota Ward has increased by 0.5 points, from 4% to 4.5%, in just one year.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"727\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1250\" style=\"width:640px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3.png 727w, https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The top for both percentage of foreign residents and rate of change from the previous year was taken by &#8220;Akaigawa Village, Hokkaido.&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The municipality with the highest ratio of foreign residents to all residents and the highest rate of change from the previous year was Akaigawa Village, where Kiroro Resort is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the December 2024 statistics on foreign residents, the number of foreign residents was 558, accounting for just over 40% of the total population, and the rate of change from the previous year was an impressive 7.4 points higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1251\" style=\"width:640px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4.png 633w, https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japan Immigration News<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-grid columns-2 has-dates has-authors wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/australias-student-visa-crackdown-hits-record-highs\/xi9s1oek9'>Australia&#039;s student visa crackdown hits record highs \u2014 what it means for who gets in<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-03T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-05-03<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by SBS News<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/japannews.yomiuri.co.jp\/editorial\/insights-world\/20260501-325231\/'>Find a Long-Term Fix for the Issue of Immigration<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-01T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-05-01<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Japan News<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.newstalkzb.co.nz\/on-air\/mike-hosking-breakfast\/audio\/marcus-beveridge-queen-city-law-managing-director-on-visa-rejection-rates-falling-to-a-post-covid-low\/'>Immigration NZ praised for running a &#039;tight ship&#039; as visa rejection rate falls<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-01T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-05-01<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Newstalk ZB<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/257838.html'>Tokyo\u2019s labour crunch fuels fastest immigration shift in decades<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-01T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-05-01<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by AZER NEWS<\/span><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/unseen-japan.com\/japan-visa-ethnic-restaurants-closing\/'>Japan\u2019s New Visa Rules Are Forcing Tokyo\u2019s Immigrant-Run Restaurants to Close<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-30T09:00:00+09:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">2026-04-30<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Unseen Japan<\/span><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the &#8220;Convenient Map for Foreign Residents&#8221;? &#8220;Convenient Map for Foreign Residents&#8221; is useful information for foreigners working and living in Japan provided by Nishiyama Intellectual Components Co., Ltd. It mainly lists essential and useful institutions for foreigners working and living in Japan, such as government offices, administrative scriveners who support residence applications, specific &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/?p=1249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8220;Convenient Map for Foreign Residents&#8221; has updated statistics on foreign residents (as of December 2024).&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-population","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.japan-workers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}