Almost half of foreign residents have experienced discrimination: government survey ⁠4%

By Jessica Speed⁠0%

5/19/2026, 6:47:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 1 faulty reasoning type, including Negativity Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 32.3% saturation with 31 hits. Analysis detected 31 faulty-reasoning hits from 96 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 16.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠4% (20,524 of 21,175 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.90% of the article peer group.

Nearly half of foreign residents in Japan report having experienced some form of discrimination, according to a government survey released Tuesday. 
The survey, conducted between October and November 2025 by the Immigration Services Agency (ISA), surveyed 20,000 foreign residents and special permanent residents who were 18 and older, receiving 8,874 valid responses. 
It found that 47% of respondents had experienced some form of discrimination in their everyday lives, while 53% said they had not encountered discriminatory treatment, a decrease of 0.8 percentage point from last year. 
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