The 19th Pan-American Japanese Convention (COPANI - Convención Panamericana Nikkei) was held in Lima, Peru from November 2nd to 5th, 20171, and at the same time, a ceremony was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Peruvian Japanese Association (APJ - Asociación Peruano Japonesa) 2 . This year's COPANI …
Thirty years have passed since the "dekasegi" phenomenon began in Japan, and many Japanese South Americans have now settled in Japan. The proportion of elderly people is gradually increasing, and there are also increasing cases of families who have decided to live in Japan permanently bringing over their elderly parents …
Read Part 1 >> Some say that overseas migration, which began in earnest in the Meiji era, did not achieve the results that had been expected. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese emigrated to North and South America before the war, but that number was less than 1% of Japan's total …
Currently, there are approximately 3.5 million people of Japanese descent living overseas.1 Although it depends on how you define "Japanese descent," here we define it as Japanese people living overseas and their descendants. Some third- and fourth-generation Japanese do not consider themselves to be of Japanese descent, but these people …
In May of this year (2017), I went to Santa Cruz, Bolivia as a lecturer for the overseas training of JICA Japanese Community Volunteers. This training was aimed at the "Japanese Community Youth and Senior Volunteers" dispatched from Japan to Latin America. As part of the training, I visited the …
Japan dispatches many cooperation volunteers to developing and emerging countries as part of its ODA (Official Development Assistance). The most well-known is the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV), dispatched by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). When it comes to developing countries, variety shows often feature the activities of current …
Since the inauguration of the second Abe Cabinet at the end of 2012, the Prime Minister has been proactively holding talks with local leaders and people involved in the Japanese community whenever he visits South American countries. At the same time, Japanese embassies and JICA offices have also begun to …
A quarter century has passed since Japanese workers from South America came to Japan. If we include those who have been here since before the 1990 revision of the Immigration Control Act, it has been 30 years already. During that time, many have come and gone due to the economic …
The generation born between the 1980s and the early 2000s is called the "millennials." Those born and raised during Japan's bubble economy (December 1986 to February 1991) are undoubtedly millennials, but in addition, those who are graduating from high school or university in 2017 also fall into this category. They …
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the local Japanese community supported Japan in various ways. Not only did they provide medical support1 and volunteer guidance for the thousands of Japanese spectators who came to Brazil, but they also cheered on the Japanese athletes at each event, even preparing carp streamers for …
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