Peruvian migration to Japan

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

Regions with significant populations
Greater Tokyo Area, Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya)
Related ethnic groups
Japanese Peruvians

There were estimated to be 52,842 Peruvians in Japan as of 2011. Roughly half are themselves descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru, while the rest are of other ethnicities.

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. 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.

Media

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

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

Further reading

• del Castillo, Alvaro (1999), Los peruanos en Japón, Gendai Kikakushitsu, ISBN 978-4-7738-9918-4, OCLC 255044795
• Vela Borda, Joel (2006), "Impacto de las remesas de los peruanos residentes en Japón" (PDF), Cuad. Difus., 11 (20) {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)