There is a small community of Japanese expatriates in Jamaica and their descendants, consisting mostly of corporate employees and their families, along with immigrants and Jamaican-born citizens of Japanese ancestry. As of 2009, 158 Japanese lived in the country, according to the statistics of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In general, they are transient foreign residents employed by Japanese companies. Jamaica has the third largest Japanese population in the Caribbean after Japanese Cubans, and Japanese Dominicans.