Vietnamese nationals account largest proportion of Japan’s foreign worker population according to official data

Vietnamese workers work at Carry System joint stock company in Japan's Ibaraki prefecture. - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, Jan 28 (Vietnam News/ANN): Vietnamese nationals account for 25.4% of the total 1.82 million foreign workers who were working in Japan as of the end of October last year, according to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW).

The ministry’s data released on January 27 showed that a record 1,822,725 million foreign workers were working in Japan as of the end of October 2022, a rise of 5.5% from the same period of 2021.