Mobile Developer Only Job Market in Japan?

As a software developer only specializing in mobile development, what are the job opportunities like for an outsider looking to settle in Japan at some point in the future. By mobile I mean iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), Flutter, React Native.

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Native development is preferred. I’ve seen job sites like JapanDev and TokyoDev, but they rarely post a native mobile developer job. I see tons of web developer jobs (front and back end). I already know that mobile dev is a smaller field but at least in the states you always see many jobs. You see MANY MORE web dev jobs but you get it. There is a reasonable ratio in the states of web dev to mobile devs.

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On the Japan job sites I can literally count on one hand the amount of mobile jobs open compared to needing both hands and my feet plus my parent’s hands and feet for web dev.

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So what gives? Are mobile developer jobs just not a big thing in Japan?

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