In the past few years, the number of Russians living, working or studying in Japan has been steadily growing. Young people from the Far East and other regions of Russia try to enter local educational institutions, language schools, try to find a job and stay there. The number of mixed marriages is growing.

Nevertheless, with all this, it can not be said that there are a lot of Russians in Tokyo. Throughout Japan, our compatriots live or stay longer than 3 months in a row, not much more than 7-9 thousand people.

In Tokyo (in the whole metropolitan area) there are about 4-5 thousand Russians out of the total - statistics say that most of they settled here. Of course, for almost 13 million people in the population of Tokyo is a little, but the Russians are among the twenty largest diasporas of the city, immediately after the Portuguese and before the Swedes.

At the same time, Russian-speaking tourists in the capital of the Land of the Rising Sun are monthly much more - even with the outflow visitors after the earthquake 2011.