Japanese immigration to peru

• What is the history of Japanese migrants in Peru?

  EPA-EFE/Ernesto Arias The history of Japanese migrants and their descendants in Peru, a community that today numbers more than 100,000 people and is one of the country's most dynamic, began 120 years ago with the arrival of a ship carrying 790 travelers seeking work at coastal sugar plantations.

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• Who are the Japanese Peruvians?

  Japanese Peruvians ( Spanish: peruano-japonés or nipo-peruano; Japanese: 日系ペルー人, Nikkei Perūjin) are Peruvian citizens of Japanese origin or ancestry. The Japanese began arriving in Peru in the late 1800s. Many factors motivated the Japanese to immigrate to Peru.

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• Do Peruvians want to return to Japan?

  The law provides some attractive benefits, but most Peruvians (as of 2015, there were 60,000 Peruvians in Japan) were not interested in returning to Peru. Peruvians in Japan came together to offer support for Japanese victims of the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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• What happened to Japanese Peruvians after the war?

  The deportation of Japanese Peruvians to the United States also involved expropriation without compensation of their property and other assets in Peru. At war's end, only 79 Japanese Peruvian citizens returned to Peru, and about 400 remained in the United States as "stateless" refugees.

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• [PDF File]Towards an Archaeology of the Japanese Diaspora in Peru

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  In this article, we look at the process of Japanese immigration to Peru, introducing several ways to study this phenomenon from an archaeological perspective. First, we summarize the historical context and the chronology of the Japanese diaspora in Peru. Then, we discuss how the subject has been approached in the past from the perspective

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• BETWEEN MENACE AND MODEL CITIZEN: LIMA'S JAPANESE-PERUVIANS ...

  The Japanese-Peruvian community in Lima, Peru used different understandings of race to assert its role in the country. This dissertation examines the changing racial and ethnic characterizations of Japanese residents in Peru between 1936 and 1963. Using archival research

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• The Japanese in Peru - JSTOR

  The Japanese in Peru History of Immigration, Settlement, and Racialization by Ayumi Takenaka Peruvians of Japanese descent, though constituting only 0.3 percent of Peru's population, were brought to the world's attention by the election of Alberto Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, as president, and today

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• [PDF File]The Nikkei Community of Peru: Settlement and Development

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  This paper provides an overview of the Japanese immigration in Peru. These immigrants first came in response to a local shortage of labor, they faced discrimination and racism in the process, but today are finally recognized in Peruvian society.

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• History of Japanese Migration to Peru, Part I

  The translation that follows is taken from a History of Japanese Overseas by Toraji Irie, a two volume work on the history of Japanese migration throughout the world since the Meiji Restoration of 1868.1 Much of the book deals with the western hemisphere.

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• [PDF File]JAPANESE PERUVIAN DIASPORA ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Collection ...

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  Japanese immigration to Peru began in the turn of the twentieth century and continued until the Second World War. Because of the increase in Japanese immigrants, racial conflict arose among Peruvians, which led to an organized race riot against Japanese business and homes.

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