Peruvian migration to Japan

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

Total population
60,000-201,000
Regions with significant populations
Greater Tokyo Area, Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya)
Related ethnic groups
Peruvians, Japanese Argentines, Japanese Uruguayans, Japanese Brazilians

There were estimated to be 60,000 Peruvians in Japan as of 2016. The majority of them are descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru who have repatriated to Japan.

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)

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

• Japan–Peru relations
• Migration in Japan

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 (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 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)