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Japanese Peruvian
Japanese Peruvians are people of Japanese ancestry who were born in or immigrated to Peru. This ethnic group, together with other East Asians, comprises approximately 3% of the total population of Peru. Japanese Peruvians, estimated at over 800,000, comprise the second largest ethnic Japanese population in Latin America after Brazil .
Historically, Japanese immigrants arrived from Okinawa; but also from Gifu-ken, Hiroshima-ken, Kanagawa-ken and Osaka. Many arrived as farmers or to work in the fields, but after their respective contracts were completed, settled in the cities. Due to economic instability in the 1980s, many Japanese Peruvians left for Japan and ...
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