[1] As of December 2023, according to data released by the Ministry of Justice Immigration Bureau, there were 19,909 people from the United Kingdom.
This number does not include those naturalised as Japanese citizerns, those staying as government officials or diplomats, or short-term residents.
[1] The prefectures with the highest concentration of British nationals were Tokyo (7,266), Kanagawa (1,791), Osaka (1,227), and Hokkaido (1,113).
Permanent residents comprised 6,880 of the population, followed by those on professional visas (3,350) and those staying as spouses of Japanese nationals (3,037).
The British School in Tokyo provides an English language based educational curriculum for students of over 50 different nationalities.