On December 26, RiskMonster, a credit management company in Tokyo-ku, Japan, announced the results of a survey on the number of employees of Japanese companies in ChinaPanasonic Holdings topped the list and is the only Japanese-owned company in China with more than 70,000 employees, and the top 10 companies are all in the manufacturing industry.
Based on the registration information of local legal entities in China registered in March 2023, RiskMonster's Chinese subsidiary, Limo (Shanghai) Business Information Consulting Co., Ltd., ranked the number of employees employed by Japanese companies in China and enrolled in social insurance, with 27,968 companies, excluding non-profit representative offices in China and Japanese companies in China that have ceased operations. 
Panasonic Holdings, which ranks first, has 74,128 employees in China, mainly focused on the production of air conditioning compressors"Panasonic Wanbao (Guangzhou) compressor"(about 26,000 people) and the production of electric vehicle batteries and other products"Panasonic New Energy (Suzhou)."(about 18,000 people). In second place is the circuit board manufacturer Macron of Japan, with 48,512 employees, the vast majority of whom are concentrated in its production sites"Zhuhai Zixiang Electronic Technology", about 47,000 people. Automakers such as Nissan Motor (42,700 employees), Toyota Motor (41,028 employees), and Honda Motor (39,140 employees) ranked third to fifth are Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (39,140 employees).
RiskMonster company analysis believes that"Local employees who are responsible for manufacturing tend to be concentrated in specific companies such as large-scale factories, and employees who are responsible for sales tend to be scattered among group companies and regional branches. "In addition, in November, RiskMonster announced the number of Japanese companies in China (excluding franchisees and representative offices), and the results of the survey showed that the retail and restaurant industries were among the best. At the top of the list is Lawson with 720 companies, followed by FamilyMart (601), Nissan (354), Zensho Holdings (270) and Saizeriya (262). 
On the other hand, there are more Chinese living in Tokyo, Japan, according to Japanese media reports, the population of Tokyo has reached a new high, reaching 14.08 million!According to the latest statistics as of May 2023, the total population of Tokyo is 14,085,336, of which 6,908,136 are males and 7,177,200 are females. 
The total population of Tokyo's 23 wards is 9,764,662, with 4,242,866 municipalities, 54,381 prefectures, and 23,427 islands. Among the 23 wards of Tokyo, Setagaya Ward has the highest population of 940,054Nerima was followed by 752,058Ota Ward, 744,605, three;Adachi Ward has a population of 695,444, or four;Edogawa Ward's population is 689,948, or five. Chiyoda Ward, the least populated, has only 68,041 people.