Iranians in Japan (在日イラン人, Zainichi Iranjin?) form Japan's fifth-largest community of immigrants from a Muslim-majority country. As of 2000, Japanese government figures recorded the population of legal Iranian residents at 6,167 individuals, with a further 5,821 estimated to be residing in the country illegally.
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