had a small Kurdish population

While the displacement of Kurds first emerged in the early twentieth century, the Kurdish migration issue in Japan has only become a significant issue in the past decade. Japan has had a small Kurdish population since the 1990s, but the population has increased rapidly in the past five years. As of 2025, estimates place Japan’s Kurdish population at around two thousand to three thousand people, with the majority living in Kawaguchi and Warabi cities in southern Saitama Prefecture. Although many Kurdish asylum seekers are not permitted to legally work in Japan, many work “illegally” in the construction and demolition industry, a key sector of the Japanese economy facing underemployment. สล็อตเว็บตรง