mytest
Most recent stats on foreign population in Japan, acccording to the Ministry of Justice:
http://www.moj.go.jp/PRESS/060530-1/060530-1.html
These depict movements for 2005. Not able to interpret the figures at the moment–writing from British Columbia, Canada, and found this page while doing some research on Permanent Residents for a talk. Debito in Kamloops, CA.