Japanese Peruvians are Peruvian citizens of Japanese origin or ancestry.
A poster used in Japan to attract immigrants to Peru and Brazil. It reads: "Join your Family, Let's Go to South America."
Arrival of the Sakura Maru to Peru with the first 790 new immigrants, 1899
Peru and Japan celebrate the 140th anniversary of diplomatic ties (2013).
Embassy of Peru in Japan
The Japanese diaspora and its individual members, known as Nikkei (日系) or as Nikkeijin (日系人), comprise the Japanese emigrants from Japan residing in a country outside Japan. Emigration from Japan was recorded as early as the 15th century to the Philippines, but did not become a mass phenomenon until the Meiji period (1868–1912), when Japanese emigrated to the Philippines and to the Americas. There was significant emigration to the territories of the Empire of Japan during the period of Japanese colonial expansion (1875–1945); however, most of these emigrants repatriated to Japan after the 1945 surrender of Japan ended World War II in Asia.
Justo Takayama monument and historical marker at Plaza Dilao in Manila
View of passengers arriving in Vancouver aboard the steamship Kumeric
Japanese Christian in Jakarta, c. 1656
Japanese and Korean children, 1908–1922
