published Jul 9th 2017, 3:00 pm, by James Mayger (Bloomberg) —While the latest data shows that the number of Japanese shrank by a record in 2016, the demographic picture isn’t quite so bleak when you include the growing ranks of foreigners. There are now 2.3 million foreigners resident in Japan.

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