Some 132,000 Filipinos call Japan home, years after arriving to work at pubs

Almost four decades after the first workers arrived in Japan to work at “Philippine pubs”, the Filipino community has become one of the most rooted in the East Asian country – but one that still remains largely female.Filipinos are the fourth-largest foreign group after the Chinese, South Korean, and Vietnamese communities, with many choosing to spend their lives here.As of June 2019, just under half of the 282,023-strong Philippine community legally living in Japan – or 132,551 people – held…