According to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the estimated number of Japanese descendants living in Peru is around 200,000, making them the second largest Japanese population in South America after Brazil; however, the 2017 Peruvian census reported only 22,534 people self-identifying as having Japanese ancestry.
A lot of Japanese people who were considered "dishonored" or "disgraced" were essentially exiled after WWII. Peru was popular because they have a lot of the same industry as Japan and weren't a combatant.
South America allowed massive japanese immigration after ww2 because they wanted people to convert the forests into farmable lands and Japan had excessive poor people the government struggled to support
How many Jap families are in Peru
Nothing against Peru but I wonder how so many Japanese people ended up in Peru
A lot of Japanese people who were considered "dishonored" or "disgraced" were essentially exiled after WWII. Peru was popular because they have a lot of the same industry as Japan and weren't a combatant.
This is completely new to me. Were these imperials from the overthrown regime?
South America allowed massive japanese immigration after ww2 because they wanted people to convert the forests into farmable lands and Japan had excessive poor people the government struggled to support
That's fascinating. I've never heard about this part of history.
They had an ethnic Japanese president, Alberto Fujimori