Among the small independent commercial enterprises that marked the employment trend of a large part of the Japanese community in urban areas for decades, there is the dry cleaning business. Since the growth in the number of establishments and the good service provided by the Japanese, it has been associated since then with the image of the Japanese community in Argentina. Today, the “Japanese dry cleaner” still exists in the imagination of Argentine society. -- Among the small independent commercial enterprises that marked the employment trend of a large part of the Japanese community in urban areas for decades, there is the dry cleaning business. Since the growth in the number of establishments and the good service provided by the Japanese, it has been associated since then with the image of the Japanese community in Argentina. Today, the “Japanese dry cleaner” still exists in the imagination of Argentine society.