Bangladeshis in Japan
জাপানী বাংলাদেশী | |
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Total population | |
27,962 (in December, 2023) | |
Languages | |
Bengali · Japanese · English | |
Religion | |
Islam | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Bangladeshi diaspora |
Migration history
Demographic characteristics
Bangladeshi migrants in Japan tend to come from a middle-class background. While fewer than four percent of Bangladeshis overall had higher educational background, nearly 30% of Bangladeshis in Japan had graduated from secondary schools. Bangladeshi migrants remain in Japan for an average of nearly seven years before returning home, each remitting US$59,068 ($739/month). They enjoy some social mobility due to the money they saved while abroad; one survey, which focused on Dhaka residents returned from Japan, found that over 50% used their funds to start their own businesses upon their return, rather than attempting to remigrate to Japan or other destinations and continue at menial jobs. Housing was not a popular use of funds saved, though 50% of migrants who remained in Japan for longer than five years purchased land in Bangladesh.[4]
Notable individuals
- Rikuto Hashimoto, Japanese footballer
- Islam Mohamed Himu, businessman
- Firoz Mahmud, contemporary visual artist
- Rola (born 1990), fashion model and celebrity
References
- ^ a b 在留外国人統計(旧登録外国人統計)統計表 [Foreign Resident Statistics (Old Registered Foreign Resident Statistics) Statistical Table]. Immigration Services Agency.
- ^ a b 令和5年末現在における在留外国人数について
- ^ ISBN 4-480-06120-7
- ^ a b c Higuchi, Naoto (May 2007), "Do Transnational Migrants Transplant Social Networks? Remittances, Investments, and Social Mobility Among Bangladeshi and Iranian Returnees from Japan", 8th Asia Pacific Migration Research Network Conference (PDF), UNESCO, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-11, retrieved 2008-04-08
- ^ 国籍(出身地)別外国人登録者数の推移 [Trends in the number of foreign registrants by nationality (place of origin)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Japanese Ministry of Justice. 10 July 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
Further reading
- Mahmood, Raisul A. (1994), "Adaptation to a new world: experience of Bangladeshis in Japan", International Migration, 32 (4), Geneva, Switzerland: 513–32, PMID 12346403