Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has released new population figures showing that the country’s demographic decline continues to accelerate, as Japanese citizens have fallen below 120 million for the first time in more than four decades, while the country’s foreign resident population has surpassed four million for the first time, setting a new record.
As of January 1, 2026, the number of Japanese citizens stood at 119,736,483, marking the first time the figure has fallen below 120 million since 1984. The population declined by approximately 917,000 people compared to the previous year, the largest annual drop since comparable records began in 1968.
During the past year, the country recorded roughly 1.59 million deaths, while births fell to another record low of approximately 670,000. It also marks the 17th consecutive year that Japan’s citizen population has declined.
Of Japan’s 47 prefectures, 46 recorded a decrease in their Japanese population. Tokyo was the only prefecture to post an increase, growing by 0.09%. Akita Prefecture experienced the steepest decline at 1.95%, followed by Aomori and Kochi, both of which fell 1.70%.
The number of foreign residents increased by approximately 354,000 people over the previous year to reach 4,031,159, the highest level since the government began tracking the statistic separately in 2013. Unlike the Japanese population, the number of foreign residents increased in every prefecture, not just Tokyo.
The contrasting trends illustrate how immigration is partially offsetting Japan’s shrinking domestic population. While falling birth rates and an aging society continue reducing the number of Japanese citizens, more people from overseas are choosing to live and work in Japan.
The report also comes as Japan experiences an unprecedented tourism boom. The country welcomed record numbers of overseas visitors in 2025, and the growing foreign resident population suggests more visitors are also choosing to remain in Japan for work, study, or long-term residence. At the same time, the government has been tightening certain permanent residency requirements while expanding programs designed to address labor shortages.
I would rather Japan’s economy collapse to 1945 levels than see Japanese ethnically replaced with jeets, mudslimes, and other “socioeconomic factors”.
It’s just the same old s♥♥t. Ruin society with rising costs, high interest rates, make retarded females feel “empowered” through sexual liberty and all this ruins the drive to start a family for a native population. Then when that happens, the only solution is “OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO IMPORT A GORILLION SHITSKINS!”
Would the leftrannies who champion replacement gen0ciding White people say that Africa and the Middle East are “totally the same country” if they were completely replacement gen0cided with White people, in the same way that London, Tokyo, etc. have become completely overrun by said shitskins?
Of course not.
Oh and not just shitskins, INVADERS. That’s what they are.
Spain is experiencing this right now, they just said “immigrants are so heckin’ awesomesauce!” and now they have videos everywhere online of military age men climbing into the country by the thousands, even at night.
That’s an invasion, simple as.
“INVADERS”
They are brought in by the government, clown. Because Japan iand Spain are a mismanaged, dying shitholes. They don’t have to climb anything.
How is this invading? Reality denying troon.
Tranny, I told you about raising costs in the previous topic with birth rates. Are you copying me now? At least be thankful that somebody smarter than you are is educating you.
Also, whites genocide themselves:
“Z02DX: In modern first and second world countries, living without family and kids has long been the norm. Especially in Japan, where half of the young population does not have a family and children.”
White men are emasculated incels with micro-penises who will rather watch anime, play games and invent excuses as to why they can’t breed.
Ban anime and games, force them to work, stop paying them welfare. This will save first world birth rates.
@SabaSaba2
You are a pathetic and ridiculous clown faggot.
>whites genocide themselves
Not quite. ((( Whites ))) are committing genocide against Whites, destroying the foundation of any nation—the traditional heterosexual family, where a woman knows her place in the kitchen, is submissive to her husband, and is responsible for the birth and upbringing of children. And a man is a man, not a soy subhuman woke cuckold like you.
@fagfaggotjew 19:37 Nope, shan’t be reading that brown seethe post either
You are mad as f♥♥k! No one wants this brown plague in a first world country, cope.
@fagfaggotjew 20:52 Hmmm nope, not this one either obsessed ban evader brown!
Try again on your alts
@FLTH
Where’s your children if you don’t want shitskins in the country, sub-human?
How many children do you have, sub-human?
It’s all just excuses and pathetic whining. People still have kids, somehow your imaginary “issues” isn’t in their way.
Maybe because those people are actually NORMAL, and make families instead of jerking off to child r4pe scenes from degenerate hentai.
Woman won’t be submissive to a cartoon watching, man-child, sissy faggot like you are. You are NOT a man.
>stop paying them welfare
It’s a good chutzpah. Are you jewish?
Your beloved ni$$rs live on unemployment welfare, which the leftist authorities pay them by taking from the taxes of a White man. At the same time, ni$$ers have no problems with demographics.
So it’s not about anime or unemployment welfare. It’s about the social construct ((( pigs ))), about feminazi, lgbtqwerty, and subhumans like you.
The problem of white demographics will be solved when femipigs is banned, lgbt are recognized as a destructive religious sect, and leftist woke pigs like you are hanged from a tree.
Lol, you are actually a welfare leech to boot too.
Micro-penis, micro-brain pest who leeche money, contribute nothing to society, busy spreading his watery cum all over his keyboard, trying to impregnate his “waifu”. Spending whole day inventing infantile excuses as to why whole world is at fault, but totally not you, while being such a bottom of the barrel loser.
The only reason why parasites like you are even alive is because liberal society and soy cucks feed you.
One of the major Western problems is trash like you, a worthless, insane, overgrown child who don’t want to be a man and demand everything given to him, like a toddler.
Shan’t be reading this tranny shitskin wall of seethe either, trannyfaggotjew
Also… TEN… 10/24 comments. ~42% (lol)… Can you say: OBSESSED?!
Hurry up and star responding on your fagflag and tranning accounts known ban evader faggot
You scared, racist? Hahaha.
WHO THE FU.CK CARE ECONOMY? RACE IS EVERYTHING
A JAPAN INFESTED WITH FUC.KING DARK INVADERS IS TOTALLY FUC.KED
Race isn’t real.
Aw, isn’t that just retarded?
Who cares? Adults who you are leeching off, infantile retard.
@SabaSaba2
Tell me, faggot, have you already sucked your husband’s dick today?
“Unprompted fag fantasies out of nowhere”
Closeted faggot, like I said. I am always 100% right regarding everything I say about you retards.
Not like such a low IQ creatura is hard to read.
MOZELTOV!!!
WE SHALL DO TO JAPAN WHAT WE’RE DOING TO EUROPE!!
JAPAN MUST BE PUNISHED FOR NOT BEING COMPLETELY ON BOARD WITH OUR BBC AGENDA LIKE THEIR HENTAI INDUSTRY IS!!!
Malthusian cycle, with extra (globalist) steps.
Maybe if you dipshits were less concerned about race and more concerned about class, you wouldn’t be panicking like fuckin’ retards about birthrates.
It’s almost like high cost of living and lack of social services make people not want to have babies, strange how that works. It’s not like this has been known for over 50 years. And before some CHUD goes “It’S tHe ImMiGrAnT’s FaUlT hurr durr” this has long been disproven, immigration improves societies.
Yup, heres why the fermi paradox exists. Resetting to dumb.
You should probably look up what that is before you use it.