Japan Gets More Than 120,000 Filipino Visitors in 2022, Highest Amid Pandemic

TOKYO – The estimated number of Filipino tourists who visited Japan in 2022 soared to 126,900, the highest on record since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) revealed on Jan. 18.

The figure was still 79.3 percent lower compared to the 613,114 tourist arrivals from the Philippines in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.

In December, two months after Japan reopened its borders to independent foreign tourists, about 40,000 visitors from the Southeast Asian nation entered the country, an increase of 16706.7 percent compared to the same month in 2021.

Last year, the Philippines placed ninth in Japan’s market for visitor arrivals. - Florenda Corpuz

Filipinos are Japan’s Third Largest Foreign Workforce

TOKYO – Workplaces all over Japan employed 206,050 Filipino nationals, and were the country’s third largest foreign workforce as of the end of October 2022, government data showed on Jan. 27.

The figure represented 11.3 percent of the total 1,822,725 foreign worker population. Vietnamese nationals topped the list accounting for 25.4 percent or 462,384, followed by Chinese at 21.2 percent or 385,848. - Florenda Corpuz