Peruvian migration to Japan
Total population | |
---|---|
49,114 (in December, 2023)[1][2] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Greater Tokyo Area, Isesaki,[3] Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya)[4] | |
Languages | |
Japanese and Peruvian Spanish | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Peruvians, Japanese Argentines, Japanese Uruguayans, Japanese Brazilians |
There are in December 2023 49,114 Peruvians in Japan.[1][5] The majority of them are descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru who have repatriated to Japan.[6]
Migration history
[edit]In 1990, Japan introduced a new ethnicity-based immigration policy which aimed to encourage Japanese descendants overseas to come to Japan and fill the country's need for foreign workers.[6] From 1992 to 1997, data from Peru's Ministry of the Interior showed Japan as the fourteenth-most popular destination for Peruvian emigrants, behind the Netherlands and ahead of Costa Rica.[7]
Among the expatriate communities in Japan, Peruvians accounted for the smallest share of those who returned to their homelands after the global recession began in 2008. In January 2013, a number of Peruvian organizations came together to form the Asociacion de Peruanos en Japon (Association of Peruvians in Japan), dedicated to facilitating integration into Japanese society.[8]
Media
[edit]- International Press (newspaper)
- IPC (television station)
Education
[edit]There are the following Peruvian international schools (ペルー学校) in Japan:
- Mundo de Alegría - Hamamatsu
- Colegio Hispano Americano de Gunma - Isesaki, Gunma
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b "【在留外国人統計(旧登録外国人統計)統計表】 | 出入国在留管理庁".
- ^ 令和5年末現在における在留外国人数について
- ^ Hiyane Yzena, Christian (6 February 2017). ""Las relaciones familiares en el Perú todavía son muy fuertes"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ^ Aquino Rodríguez 1999, p. 7
- ^ 令和5年末現在における在留外国人数について
- ^ a b Takenaka 2003, p. 223
- ^ Aquino Rodríguez 1999, p. 3
- ^ "Peruvians Struggling to Find a Place in Japanese Society". nippon.com. 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2022-02-06.
References
[edit]- Aquino Rodríguez, Carlos (1999), "Migración internacional del trabajo: el caso de los peruanos en Japón" (PDF), in Girado, Gustavo (ed.), 8va reunión del Grupo de Trabajo de Desarrollo de Discursos Humanos, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council
- Takenaka, Ayumi (2003), "Paradoxes of ethnicity-based migration: Peruvian and Japanese-Peruvian migrants in Japan", in Goodman, Roger (ed.), Global Japan: the experience of Japan's new immigrant and overseas communities, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-29741-7
Further reading
[edit]- del Castillo, Alvaro (1999), Los peruanos en Japón, Gendai Kikakushitsu, ISBN 978-4-7738-9918-4, OCLC 255044795
- Vela Borda, Joel (June 2006), "Impacto de las remesas de los peruanos residentes en Japón" (PDF), Cuad. Difus., 11 (20), archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-04