Which prefectures are seeing growth in foreign residents?
Compare changes across all 47 prefectures from December 2024 to December 2025, based on the Statistics on Foreign Residents. Percentage change uses the starting count as its base, while count change is the numerical difference; neither is a forecast.
Change metric
Largest count decreases
| Rank | Prefecture | Count changeStart to latest |
|---|---|---|
| Ranked 1st nationwide | Shizuoka | |
| Ranked 2nd nationwide | Tochigi | |
| Ranked 3rd nationwide | Okinawa | |
| Ranked 4th nationwide | Shiga | |
| Ranked 5th nationwide | Fukui | |
| Ranked 6th nationwide | Okayama | |
| Ranked 6th nationwide | Kochi | |
| Ranked 8th nationwide | Aomori | |
| Ranked 9th nationwide | Nagasaki | |
| Ranked 10th nationwide | Oita | |
| Ranked 11th nationwide | Gifu | |
| Ranked 12th nationwide | Gunma | |
| Ranked 12th nationwide | Tottori | |
| Ranked 12th nationwide | Shimane | |
| Ranked 15th nationwide | Toyama | |
| Ranked 15th nationwide | Ishikawa |
December 2024 → December 2025 · Statistics on Foreign Residents