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	Japan Update July 12, 2018

	One in ten Tokyoites in  their 20s are now foreigners TOKYO -- As Japan's population declines and its labor shortage  worsens, foreigners are increasingly filling in the gaps. The country's non-Japanese  population had climbed 7.5% at  the start of 2018 from a year  earlier, with growth seen in all prefectures except Nagasaki. The trend is particularly  evident in Tokyo, where 10% of 20-somethings were born somewhere  other than Japan.
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