Japanese citizens with a stay of longer than three months
Supplementary notes
Data prior to 2021 comes from previous reporting.
Figures are based on the information gathered by Japanese diplomatic government offices abroad and do not include descendants of Japanese emigrants (nikkeijin) who do not hold Japanese citizenship. People with multiple citizenships are counted.
Figures have been rounded.
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Number of Japanese residents in Hong Kong 2016-2025
As of 2025, approximately * Japanese residents lived in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, the Japanese population in the city has shown a general downward trend from over * residents ten years earlier.
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