Peruvian migration to Japan

{{Infobox Ethnic group

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

|population = 49,247 (in December, 2024){{cite web | url=https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/policies/statistics/toukei_ichiran_touroku.html | title=【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 }}[https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/publications/press/13_00052.html 令和6年末現在における在留外国人数について]

|popplace = Greater Tokyo Area, Isesaki,{{cite web|last=Hiyane Yzena|first=Christian|url=https://www.perushimpo.com/noticias.php?idp=8642|title="Las relaciones familiares en el Perú todavía son muy fuertes"|date=6 February 2017|accessdate=4 December 2019|language=Spanish}} Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya){{harvnb|Aquino Rodríguez|1999|p=7}}

|langs = Japanese and Peruvian Spanish

}}

There were 49,247 Peruvian residents in Japan as of December 2024.{{cite web | url=https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/policies/statistics/toukei_ichiran_touroku.html | title=【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 }}[https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/publications/press/13_00052.html 令和6年末現在における在留外国人数について] The majority of them are descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru who have repatriated to Japan.{{harvnb|Takenaka|2003|p=223}}

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.{{harvnb|Aquino Rodríguez|1999|p=3}}

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.{{Cite web|date=2014-02-13|title=Peruvians Struggling to Find a Place in Japanese Society|url=https://www.nippon.com/en/people/e00054/|access-date=2022-02-06|website=nippon.com|language=en}}

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

References

{{citation|chapter=Migración internacional del trabajo: el caso de los peruanos en Japón|last=Aquino Rodríguez|first=Carlos|title=8va reunión del Grupo de Trabajo de Desarrollo de Discursos Humanos|publisher=Pacific Economic Cooperation Council|year=1999|editor-last=Girado|editor-first=Gustavo|chapter-url=http://www.asiayargentina.com/pdf/241-migracion.PDF}}
{{citation|chapter=Paradoxes of ethnicity-based migration: Peruvian and Japanese-Peruvian migrants in Japan|last=Takenaka|first=Ayumi|title=Global Japan: the experience of Japan's new immigrant and overseas communities|editor-last=Goodman|editor-first=Roger|publisher=Routledge|year=2003|isbn=978-0-415-29741-7}}