Peruvian migration to Japan

There are in June 2021 48,105 Peruvians in Japan.[1] The majority of them are descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru who have repatriated to Japan.[4]

Peruvians in Japan
Peruanos en Japón
在日ペルー人
Zainichi Perūjin
Total population
48,105 (in June, 2021)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Greater Tokyo Area, Isesaki,[2] Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya)[3]
Related ethnic groups
Peruvians, Japanese Argentines, Japanese Uruguayans, Japanese Brazilians

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.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6]

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. https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/policies/statistics/toukei_ichiran_touroku.html
  2. Hiyane Yzena, Christian (6 February 2017). ""Las relaciones familiares en el Perú todavía son muy fuertes"" (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  3. Aquino Rodríguez 1999, p. 7
  4. Takenaka 2003, p. 223
  5. Aquino Rodríguez 1999, p. 3
  6. "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", in Girado, Gustavo (ed.), 8va reunión del Grupo de Trabajo de Desarrollo de Discursos Humanos (PDF), 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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