As of October 2022, close to 95 thousand Japanese residents lived in Australia.
Australia's Japanese Community
The main language spoken at home is Japanese (79.8%), followed by English (16.7%). The vast majority of Australia's Japan-born population reside in the eastern states of New South Wales (33.0%), Queensland (29.2%) and Victoria (20.1%).
As of October 2022, close to 29 thousand Japanese residents lived in Sydney. Sydney was therefore one of the cities with the highest number of Japanese residents outside of Japan. Similarly, Australia was one of the countries with the highest number of Japanese residents.
Japanese Brazilians are the largest ethnic Japanese community outside Japan (numbering about 2 million, compared to about 1.5 million in the United States) and São Paulo contains the largest concentration of Japanese outside Japan. Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul also have a large Japanese community.
The first group of Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan.
As of October 2022, close to 95 thousand Japanese residents lived in Australia.
The Yamato people are the dominant native ethnic group of Japan and because of their numbers, the term Yamato is often used interchangeably with the term Japanese.
In 2021, approximately 716.6 thousand Chinese nationals were living in Japan, representing a decrease from around 778 thousand Chinese residents in the previous year. After a slight decrease in 2013, the number of Chinese residents living in Japan had been increasing constantly until 2020.
The number of Japanese emigrants to China and their descendants are unknown. However, the peak was 2012 and recently decreasing. In 2018, the permanent resident ratio is only 2.7%.
The total included 761,563 people from China, the largest group by nationality, 489,312 from Vietnam and 411,312 from South Korea.
Chinese and Indian Australians, particularly second and third generation immigrants, are present in large numbers in Sydney and Melbourne, with Chinese Australians constituting Sydney's fourth largest ancestry group.
At the 2021 census, 1,390,637 Australian residents identified themselves as having Chinese ancestry, accounting for 5.5% of the total population.
The China-born* population is one of the largest birthplace groups in Australia with most living in large cities, such as Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It should be noted that a significant proportion of people from some other countries, for example, Singapore and Malaysia, are also of Chinese ancestry.
Japan's increasing economic importance to Australia from the 1960s, and rising prosperity and linkages between the two countries, led to an increase in the number of Japanese choosing to live in Australia.
Early Japanese migration to Australia was spurred by the pearling and sugar cane industries. From 1901, Japanese migration was limited by the implementation of the White Australia policy. During the Second World War, people of Japanese origin were interned in Australia as 'enemy aliens'.
High class residential areas in uptown Tokyo such as Hiroo, Azabu, Shoto, Akasaka, and Takanawadai are known throughout Japan as prestigious areas within Tokyo.
China makes up 18.45% of the total global economy. The top two richest countries in the world combined harbor 42.38% of the world's economy. The third richest country in the world by GDP is Japan at $4.937 trillion in GDP and a $39,285.2 GDP per capita.
The study revealed for the Japanese as a whole, some genetic components from all of the Central, East, Southeast and South Asian populations are prevalent in the Japanese population with the major components of ancestry profile coming from the Korean and Han Chinese clusters.
The 2022 report ranks Japan as the third most powerful country in Asia after the United States and China. India follows in fourth place, while Russia is ranked fifth, followed by Australia, South Korea, Singapore and Indonesia.
But still, Japan was home to about 10,000 Russian citizens as of 2022, the majority of whom are permanent residents, according to the Immigration Services Agency.
Nagasaki Chinatown
No other Japanese city has experienced more Chinese influence and feels more Chinese than Nagasaki, whose port remained the only major Japanese port open to Chinese trade during the country's period of isolation.
In 2019, there were over 824,977 ethnic Koreans resident in Japan. According to the Ministry of Justice, 411,312 South Koreans and 25,871 Koreans (朝鮮人, Chōsen-jin) (those "Koreans" do not necessarily have the North Korean nationality) are registered in 2022.
By in December 2022, there were 489,312 residents. The majority of the Vietnamese legal residents live in the Kantō region and Keihanshin area.
Shinto and Buddhism are Japan's two major religions. Shinto is as old as the Japanese culture, while Buddhism was imported from the mainland in the 6th century. Since then, the two religions have been co-existing relatively harmoniously and have even complemented each other to a certain degree.
Shortly after the end of World War II, Japan's population started to grow very quickly, and birth control came to the fore as an answer to a perceived “population problem.” Repatriation and a post-war baby boom were assisted by a moderate death rate of 14.6 per 1,000, resulting in population growth of 31 per 1,000 ...