The data below is in a format known as tab-delimited values. You can open this file with any spreadsheet application and the data will be distributed into the appropriate rows and columns. 

Year	Born in Japan	Of Japanese ethnicity
1981	744	
1986	1433	1788
1991	2184	2970
1996	6501	7461
2001	8622	10026
2006	9570	11907
2013	10269	14118

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