Peruvian migration to Japan

Peruvians in Japan
Peruanos en Japón
在日ペルー人
Zainichi Perūjin
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

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

  • International Press (newspaper)
  • IPC (television station)

Education

There are the following Peruvian international schools (ペルー学校) in Japan:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ 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".
  2. ^ 令和５年末現在における在留外国人数について
  3. ^ Hiyane Yzena, Christian (6 February 2017). ""Las relaciones familiares en el Perú todavía son muy fuertes"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  4. ^ Aquino Rodríguez 1999, p. 7
  5. ^ 令和５年末現在における在留外国人数について
  6. ^ a b Takenaka 2003, p. 223
  7. ^ Aquino Rodríguez 1999, p. 3
  8. ^ "Peruvians Struggling to Find a Place in Japanese Society". nippon.com. 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2022-02-06.

References

  • 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

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