Ethnic groups of Japan

[1] The number of foreign workers has been increasing dramatically in recent years, due to the aging population and the lack of labor force.

A news article in 2018 states that approximately 1 out of 10 young people residing in Tokyo are foreign nationals.

"[10] Historical minorities: (arrived in Japan before or during 1700) Modern minorities: (arrived in Japan after 1700) The Ainu people (also Aynu) are an indigenous people native to Hokkaido and northeastern Honshu, as well as the nearby Russian Sakhalin and Kuril Islands (both formerly part of the Japanese Empire), and Kamchatka Peninsula.

They are descendants of Japanese, Europeans, White Americans, Polynesians and Micronesians who settled Hahajima and Chichijima in the 18th century.

Some emigrated to the United States, finding it easier to assimilate into an English-speaking Western culture than a Japanese-speaking Asian one.

Today, roughly 200 Bonin Islanders remain in Japan, some still bearing the surnames of the original 18th-century settlers.

There are different subgroups of the Ryukyuan ethnic group, the Okinawan, Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni peoples.

[12] The Ryukyuans have a distinct culture with some matriarchal elements, native religion, and cuisine which had fairly late (12th century) introduction of rice.

[13] A small number of Nivkh people resettled in Hokkaido when Japan evacuated southern Sakhalin at the end of World War II.

Indians in Japan are primarily employed in the information technology industry and other office jobs where English language is used.