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)
Regions with significant populations
	Greater Tokyo Area, Isesaki, Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya)
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:

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

Notes

^ ^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

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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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