Peruvian migration to Japan

Ethnic group

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

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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

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

## Education

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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

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* Peru portal
* Japan portal

* Japan–Peru relations
* Migration in Japan

## Notes

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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. ^ 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

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* 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

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* 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

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