Peruvian migration to Japan

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

Total population
49,247 (in December, 2024) [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 were 49,247 Peruvian residents in Japan as of December 2024. ^{[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:

• Mundo de Alegría - Hamamatsu
• Colegio Hispano Americano de Gunma - Isesaki, Gunma

See also

• Peru portal
• Japan portal

• Japan–Peru relations
• Migration in Japan

Notes

1. "【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6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6年末現在における在留外国人数について
6. 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

Further reading

• 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