ABSTRACT
Ethnicity-related issues in Japan traditionally include the segregation of and prejudice towards the Ainu and Okinawans, the indigenous peoples of this Archipelago, as well as prejudice toward Koreans who were forcefully brought here after the Japanese annexation of their country in 1910. More recently, ethnicity has taken on further dimensions. Japan has accepted Indochinese refugees, though a very small number, and there are many legal and illegal foreign workers, coming particularly from poorer nations in Asia, such as the Philippines, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and from the Middle East. Many young Chinese from the People's Republic have come on student visas, motivated to work here so that they can send money to their relatives back home.
