On Jan 8, 9:48 pm, pellicleund...@hotmail.com (Obakesan) wrote:
> Hi
>
> In article <e99d4601-c2c6-40da-95e1-fe9d10b51...@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >options in Tokyo. More than 80% of all OECD country gaigins leave
> >within 3 years of arrival, so there are always opportunities opening
>
> interesting stat ... where'dja get that?

Immigration. When I did my course.

> I've heard other stats of interest that I'd like refs for (other than I read
> it on an NG) Eg 2% or so of the registered gaijin in Nippon are Europeans the
> rest are Asians (of course we all know that Nipponjin are not asians...)

Even if all Sepps, Canucks, Aussies, Kiwis etc were counted as
European, that would still only work with a very creative
interpretation of Brazilians and Peruvians. Admittedly most are of at
least partial Japanese descent.

In 2005, Okazaki's (eastern Aichi) stats looked like this
http://www.declan.tv/okazaki_notes/kokusekibetsu.html