Peruvian migration to Japan

There were 49,247 Peruvian residents in Japan as of December 2024.^[1][5] The majority of them are descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru who have repatriated to Japan.^[6]

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

Total population
49,247 (in December, 2024)[1][2]
Regions with significant populations
Greater Tokyo Area, Isesaki,[3] Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya)[4]
Languages
Japanese and Peruvian Spanish
Related ethnic groups
Peruvians, Japanese Argentines, Japanese Uruguayans, Japanese Brazilians

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.^[6] 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.^[7]

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.^[8]

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

• Peru portal
• Japan portal

• Japan–Peru relations
• Migration in Japan