Japanese Caribbean people

Japanese Caribbeans

Regions with significant populations
Dominican Republic	1,673
Cuba	1,100
Languages
English · Spanish · Japanese
Religion
Buddhism · Shinto · Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Japanese Brazilians · Japanese Peruvians
Figures above are Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates of the number of local citizens of Japanese descent and do not include Japanese expatriates.

Japanese Caribbeans are people of Japanese ethnic origin living in the Caribbean. There are small but significant populations of Japanese people and their descendants living in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica.

Sub-groups

Caribbean Islands:

• Japanese Cubans
• Japanese settlement in the Dominican Republic
• Japanese expatriates in Jamaica

Mainland Caribbean:

• Japanese migration to Colombia
• Japanese Brazilians

See also

• Afro-Caribbean
• Chinese Caribbeans
• Indo-Caribbeans
• White Caribbeans
• Japanese Brazilians
• Japanese Peruvians

Further reading

• Masterson, Daniel M; Funada-Classen, Sayaka (2003), The Japanese in Latin America, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-07144-7
• Peguero, Valentina (2005), Colonización y política: los japoneses y otros inmigrantes en la República Dominicana, Santo Domingo: BanReservas, ISBN 978-99934-940-4-1
• Tokota, Ryan Masaaki (2008), "Japanese and Okinawan Cubans", in Font, Mauricio A.; Arias, John (eds.), A Changing Cuba in a Changing World (PDF), New York: Bildner Center, pp. 430–446, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-05