• Yokoso Japan: With the number of tourists hitting the 31 million-mark last year, Japan has had to adjust to an influx of people from other countries. That number is set to climb with the upcoming 2020 Olympics expected to attract 40 million tourists as well as new categories of visa that aim to bring in around 345,000 non-Japanese workers. | ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM PASION
    Yokoso Japan: With the number of tourists hitting the 31 million-mark last year, Japan has had to adjust to an influx of people from other countries. That number is set to climb with the upcoming 2020 Olympics expected to attract 40 million tourists as well as new categories of visa that aim to bring in around 345,000 non-Japanese workers. | ILLUSTRATION BY ADAM PASION
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Every January, Just Be Cause takes a look at how things went for the non-Japanese residents of Japan (NJ) in the previous year.

While not everything made this year’s list — there were the false claims of “foreigner fraud” of the national health insurance system, and fake news of NJ crime in the wake of the Osaka quake in June — the issues that did, ranked in ascending order, may portend how our community is treated in 2019 and beyond.

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