Peruvian migration to Japan

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

Total population
52,842 (2011)
Regions with significant populations
Greater Tokyo Area, Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya)[1]
Related ethnic groups
Peruvian people, Japanese people, Japanese Peruvians, Brazilians in Japan

There were estimated to be 52,842 Peruvians in Japan as of 2011. With a majority of them being descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru, while the rest are of other ethnicities.^[2]

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.^[2] 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.^[3]

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

1. Aquino Rodríguez 1999, p. 7
2. Takenaka 2003, p. 223
3. Aquino Rodríguez 1999, p. 3

References

• Aquino Rodríguez, Carlos (1999), "Migración internacional del trabajo: el caso de los peruanos en Japón", in Girado, Gustavo, 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, 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)