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2026-09-12

91% are satisfied. 47% have faced discrimination.

満足91%、差別の経験47%。同じ調査の同じ人たち

91% of foreign residents in Japan say they are satisfied with life here.

47% say they have experienced discrimination.

Both numbers come from the same survey of 8,874 foreign residents, run by the Immigration Services Agency last autumn.

Both can be true at once. You can like your life here and still have been turned away when you tried to rent an apartment.

That is the most common place it happens: looking for somewhere to live, 19.4%.

The second one is harder to hear. While working, 17.5%. And when people were asked who it came from, strangers were first at 44.8%, and people at work were second, at 35.9%.

Nobody can do much about strangers, and no one controls every landlord.

A workplace is the one place on that list that the people running it can actually change.

If you manage people who came to Japan from abroad, have you ever asked them how it has been at work?

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