Editing Demographics of Japan (section)

===Emigration===
{{Main|Japanese diaspora}}
About 663,300 Japanese were living abroad, approximately 75,000 of whom had permanent foreign residency, more than six times the number who had that status in 1975. More than 200,000 Japanese went abroad in 1990 for extended periods of study, research, or business assignments. As the government and private corporations have stressed internationalization, greater numbers of individuals have been directly affected, decreasing Japan's historical insularity. By the late 1980s, these problems, particularly the [[ijime|bullying]] of returnee children in schools, had become a major public issue both in Japan and in Japanese communities abroad.<ref name=loc/>

Cities with significant populations of [[Japanese diaspora|Japanese nationals]] in 2015 included: 
* [[Los Angeles]], United States: 68,689
* [[Bangkok]], Thailand: 48,700
* [[Shanghai]], China: 46,115
* [[New York City|New York]], United States: 44,636
* [[Singapore]]: 36,963
* [[London]], United Kingdom: 36,721
* [[Sydney]], Australia: 30,448
* [[Vancouver]], Canada: 26,999
* [[Hong Kong]]: 26,869
* [[San Francisco]], United States: 18,777
* [[Toronto]], Canada: 13,410

Note: The above data shows the number of Japanese nationals living overseas. It was published by the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan]] and relates to 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/toko/page22_000043.html |title=Annual Report of Statistics on Japanese Nationals Overseas |access-date=2018-04-08 |df=dmy-all |archive-date=2018-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408141349/http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/toko/page22_000043.html |url-status=live }}</ref>