This article presents some of the latest available figures on illegal immigration in Japan, a process that did not assume significant proportions until the mid-1980s. It also discusses briefly the latest developments around “immigration” policy–more precisely, the law on the entry and exit of aliens. More extensive presentations of these issues can be found in Morita (1992; 1993) and Sassen (1991:297–299; 307–315; 1993).
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