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 percentage decreases
| Rank | Prefecture | Percentage changeStart to latest |
|---|---|---|
| Ranked 1st nationwide | Kochi | |
| Ranked 2nd nationwide | Aomori | |
| Ranked 3rd nationwide | Fukui | |
| Ranked 4th nationwide | Nagasaki | |
| Ranked 5th nationwide | Okayama | |
| Ranked 6th nationwide | Shiga | |
| Ranked 7th nationwide | Shimane | |
| Ranked 7th nationwide | Oita | |
| Ranked 9th nationwide | Tottori | |
| Ranked 10th nationwide | Shizuoka | |
| Ranked 11th nationwide | Gifu | |
| Ranked 12th nationwide | Tochigi | |
| Ranked 13th nationwide | Okinawa | |
| Ranked 14th nationwide | Toyama | |
| Ranked 15th nationwide | Gunma | |
| Ranked 16th nationwide | Ishikawa |
December 2024 → December 2025 · Statistics on Foreign Residents
About percentage change
Calculated from the starting count. Prefectures with a starting count of zero or missing endpoint data are not ranked by percentage.