<P> Approximately 531,000 non-Japanese residing in Japan departed the country after the quake and tsunami, including approximately 25% of foreigners living in Tokyo . Foreigners living in Japan and the English - language media in Japan coined the term "flyjin" (or fly - jin), a play on the Japanese word gaijin, as a label for the non-Japanese who fled in the wake of the disaster . </P> <P> 9,720 dependents of United States military and government civilian employees in Japan fled the country, mainly to the United States . The United States spent $11.7 million on chartered aircraft to fly the dependents out of the country . </P> <P> The number of foreign residents in Japan dropped by 55,000 in 2011, with Iwate losing 15.5%, Fukushima 15.1%, and Miyagi 13.2% of their populations of non-Japanese . The total reduction in foreigners nationwide was 2.6% of the pre-quake total . </P> <P> The former Japanese participant of Korean Broadcasting System's Global Talk Show Junko Sagawa criticized the Japanese government for "intentionally ignoring the Japanese citizens during the tsunami and the nuclear crisis" through her personal homepage on 17 March 2011 . </P>

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