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Indonesians, Vietnamese form larger share of Japan's foreign workers

TOKYO -- Japan's foreign workforce has seen its landscape change because of shifts in wages and exchange rates, with Vietnamese workers overtaking Chinese workers as the largest group last year while workers from Indonesia nearly tripled from 2018.

The total number of foreign workers in Japan had increased 40.3% in five years to 2.05 million as of October 2023, according to data from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

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