Exploring the trajectories of highly skilled migration law and policy in Japan and the UK

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 3 newly arrived HSMs in 2018^a

Professor	3194
Artist	435
Religious Activities	872
Highly Skilled Professionals (i.e. through PBS)	531
Business manager	1790
Researcher	368
Instructor (e.g. language instructors)	3432
Engineer, Specialist in Humanities/ International Services	34,182
Intra-company transferee	9478
Skilled labour (e.g chefs)	3551
other HSMs	103
total	57,936

Source: Immigration Services Agency (2019)
^aAs UK statistics are only available in flow data shown in Table 4, we also cited the flow data here to compare the figures of both countries. We find that the stock data of HSMs represents the true picture of HSMs. Entertainers are not in the table as they tend to stay short-term (the number of residents is only 2389 in 2018)