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.
As of October 2022, close to 95 thousand Japanese residents lived in Australia.
Japan's population is over 126m, 75% of whom live in urban areas like Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Osaka and Nagoya. With such densely populated cities, space is precious and land prices extremely high.
As of October 2022, Los Angeles was host to the highest number of Japanese residents among cities outside of Japan with about 65 thousand Japanese residents. In the same year, the United States was the country with by far the highest number of Japanese residents outside of Japan.
Indeed, the Japanese population in Brazil, numbering at 1.8 million, is the largest Japanese diaspora in the world. Japanese immigrants began settling in Brazil at the beginning of the 20th Century shortly following a treaty between the two countries.
The two most popular destinations were the archipelago of Hawaii and America's Pacific coast. In both places, the immigrants would discover a new and radically different way of life, but the two destinations each responded to, and were shaped by, the newcomers in a unique and distinctive way.
High class residential areas in uptown Tokyo such as Hiroo, Azabu, Shoto, Akasaka, and Takanawadai are known throughout Japan as prestigious areas within Tokyo. A common feature among most of these areas is being located at the top of hills–in the center of Tokyo–with nice views in quiet living environments.
In 2021, the median wealth per adult in Japan amounted to 120 thousand U.S. dollars, down from 128.7 thousand dollars in the previous year. Financial assets of households in Japan exceeded 2,000 trillion Japanese yen in 2022, with cash and deposits accounting for more than 50 percent.
Typically, a traditional Japanese breakfast consists of steamed rice, miso soup, a protein such as grilled fish, and various side dishes.
The Japanese population is located throughout the Melbourne area, with many temporary Japanese residents living in middle-class suburbs. As of 2007 many high income Japanese live in Melbourne-area middle class suburbs, such as Brighton and Camberwell.
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'.
There are in June 2022 9,437 resident Australians in Japan.
Outlandish as it may seem, the lavish spending has become commonplace within the inner circles of Sydney's community of wealthy Chinese. Billionaires from mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore, along with homegrown Asian tycoons, have turned the Harbour City into their playground.
As we've mentioned, Honshu is the most populous island in Japan. There are approximately 104 million people living in Honshu, which equates to about 80% of the entire population of Japan! Honshu takes up an enormous area. This island covers around 250,000 kilometres squared.
As of October 2022, more than 9.5 thousand Japanese residents lived in the Brisbane metropolitan area, the second lowest number of the past decade.
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.
About 953,000 households, or 1.8% of Japan's total, can be classified as affluent—with savings, property and other assets valued at ¥100–500 million.
Is Japan a wealthy country? Over the past 70 years, government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (slightly less than 1% of GDP) have helped Japan develop an advanced economy.
But how do you define a rich person in Japan? According to Atsushi Miura, who last year published a book titled “The New Rich,” the financial industry considers a person to be wealthy if their yearly income is over ¥30 million and they have assets of at least ¥100 million.
Shinto (神道, Shintō), also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous religion of Japan and of most of the people of Japan.
Cross-national public opinion surveys have shown that many Japanese people are relatively positive about having immigrants in the country, compared with respondents in other countries, saying that it would increase cultural diversity and revitalize society.
2,413 asylum applications by refugees were received in 2021 in Japan — according to UNHCR. Most of them came from persons with unknown origin, Afghanistan and from China. A total of 3,691 decisions have been made on initial applications. Around 2% of them were answered positively.