Tags: Ethnic Group.
Filipinos in Japan (在日フィリピン人 Zainichi Firipinjin) formed a population of 202592 individuals at year-end 2007 making them Japan’s third-largest foreign community along with Brazilians according to the statistics of the Ministry of Justice. Their population reached as high as 245518 in 1998 but fell to 144871 individuals in 2000 before beginning to recover slightly when Japan cracked down on human trafficking.
