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DATE: TUESDAY, April 5, 1994                   TAG: 9404050154
SECTION: NATIONAL/INT                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: TOKYO                                LENGTH: Short

FOREIGN CRIME HITS RECORD HIGH IN JAPAN

Crimes committed by foreigners in Japan jumped 71 percent to a record high in 1993, police said Monday.

Foreigners accounted for 2.4 percent of overall arrests in Japan last year, although they make up only 0.8 percent of Japan's total population of 124.7 million, the National Police Agency said in an annual report.

Overall, the report said, crime in Japan increased 13.7 percent in 1993.

Meanwhile, it said, the number of foreigners staying illegally in Japan declined for the first time because of the nation's economic slump.

- Associated Press

by CNB