Japanese people in Germany explained

Group:Japanese people in Germany
Population:78,423 (with Japanese ancestry)[1]
0.085% of the German Population
36,960 (Japanese citizens)[2]
0.045% of the German Population
Popplace:Düsseldorf • Berlin • Frankfurt • Munich • Hamburg
Langs:German • Japanese ・ English

There is a community of Japanese people in Germany (;) consisting mainly of expatriates from Japan as well as German citizens of Japanese descent.

Demographics

See also: Japanese community of Düsseldorf.

See also: Demographics of Hamburg. In 1932 Berlin was the home of about 20% of all of the Japanese people in Europe and Germany had become a centre for Japanese people sent by the Japanese Ministry of Education to study in Europe. In 1936 the Japanese people were declared Honorary Aryans by the Nazis. At the time of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor about 300 Japanese people lived in Berlin. Around that time fewer than 200 Japanese women and children previously in Germany returned to Japan by ship. They boarded the Yasukunimaru, a ship operated by NYK Line, in Hamburg.[3]

In 1963 there were 800 Japanese people in Hamburg, including 50 children.[4]

In 1985 there were about 16,500 Japanese persons living in West Germany. The largest group, making up about 6,000, resided in Düsseldorf, and there were other Japanese communities in Berlin and Hamburg.[5] At this time, over 90% of ethnic Japanese households in West Germany had an affluent corporate executive as the head of the household. This executive often stayed in Germany for three to five years, and company employees arriving in Germany often move into residences formerly occupied by those returning to Japan.

Number of Japanese in larger cities
CityPeople
1. 8,329
2. 4,369
3. 3,363
4. 3,082
5. 2,476
6. 2,294
7. 1,433
8. 1,284
9. 1,238
10. 1,038

Tourism

In 1975, 195,350 Japanese people visited West Germany. In 1984 that figure was about 400,000.[5]

Today Germany has about 700,000 Japanese tourists per year and is one of the popular tourist country to Japanese people. Most popular destinations of Japanese people are Berlin, Black Forest, Bremen, Cologne Cathedral, Dresden, Freiburg, Heidelberg Castle, Munich, Neuschwanstein Castle and Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

Institutions

There are few Japanese institutions in Germany. The largest one is the Japanese Culture Institute in Cologne which is owned by Japan Foundation. It was made in 1969 at the time of West Germany. Other known Japanese centers in Germany are the German-Japanese Center and Ekō-House of Japanese Culture in Düsseldorf, Japanese-German Center in Berlin and Japanese Culture Center in Frankfurt. There are also German-Japanese society in each federal states and mostly in its largest cities.

There are also few German museums that has associations with Japan, including Bonsai Museum in Düsseldorf, Japan Art - Gallery Friedrich Müller in Frankfurt, Japanese Palace in Dresden, Mitsuko Castle in Thürkow, Mori Ōgai Memorial Hall in Berlin, Museum Five Continents in Munich, Museum of East Asian Art in Cologne, Samurai Museum in Berlin and Siebold Museum in Würzburg.

There are also many Japanese festival in Germany. The largest of its theme is the Japan Day in Düsseldorf which take place in May or June every year and has visitors of over 600,000. Japan Day features the sale of Japanese foods, drinks, materials and goods, with many stands located on the Rhine river with a firework in the late evening. There are also known Japanese festivals including the Cherry Blossom Festival in Hamburg, German-Japanese Summer Festival in Hanover, Japanfest in Munich, Japanese Light Festival Dortmund, in Main Matsuri in Frankfurt. Also many Japanese film festivals in Germany, the largest one is Nippon Connection in Frankfurt and many Japanese convention, most of them are associated with Mangas and Cosplays, including AnimagiC in Mannheim, Connichi in Kassel, Contaku in Magdeburg and NipponCon in Bremen.

Education

There are five nihonjin gakkō (Japanese international elementary and junior schools operated by Japanese associations) in Germany:

The Toin Gakuen Schule Deutschland, a Japanese boarding high school/gymnasium in Bad Saulgau classified as a shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (overseas branch of a Japanese private school) was scheduled to close in 2012.[6]

Hoshū jugyō kō (supplementary/weekend Japanese schools) include:

Notable individuals

See also

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Japanese people in Germany . Mofa.go.jp . 2016-01-18.
  3. Kudo, Akira. Japanese-German Business Relations: Co-operation and Rivalry in the Interwar Period (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies). Routledge, October 2, 2012., 9781134750092. p. 31.
  4. Kolarczyk, Arne. "Japaner feiern Jubiläum." Hamburger Abendblatt. 12 June 2013. Retrieved on 2 January 2016. "1963 lebten 800 Japaner in Hamburg. Darunter waren 50 Kinder."
  5. Heinrich, Mark. "Corporate Japanese colony sprouts in West German city." Associated Press at the Houston Chronicle. Sunday November 224, 1985. Page 1, Section 4. Available from NewsBank, Record Number HSC112453511. Available online from the Houston Public Library with a library card. "This is the heart of Duesseldorf's Japanese district, a closely knit foreign community of 6,000 people in the midst of this busy city with a population of 580,000." and "In addition, about 400,000 Japanese tourists flocked to West Germany in 1984, compared with 195,350 in 1975, according to Akio Tanaka, press attache at the JapaneseEmbassy in Bonn." and "About 16,500 Japanese live in West Germany. Smaller communities reside in Frankfurt, center of international banking in West Germany, and in Hamburg, hub for import-export and shipping firms."
  6. "Japanische Schule kehrt Bad Saulgau den Rücken" (Archive). Südkurier. 20 March 2010. Retrieved on 6 January 2015. "Die Schülerzahl hat sich von 1994, dem Jahr mit dem Höchststand, von 136 Schüler auf heute aktuell 47 Schüler um ein Drittel verringert.[...]Für das im April 2010 beginnende neue Schuljahr gibt es keine Schüler, die in die 7. Klasse (1. Klasse der japanischen Mittelschule) eingeschult werden."
  7. "2014 年度 " (Archive). Japanische Erganzungsschule in Berlin. Retrieved on February 14, 2015. "Japanische Ergänzungsschule in Berlin e.V. c/o Halensee - Grundschule Joachim - Friedrich - Str. 35/36 10711 Berlin"
  8. "Halensee-Grundschule ." City of Berlin. Retrieved on April 2, 2015. "Halensee-Grundschule Joachim-Friedrich-Str. 35-36 10711 Berlin–Wilmersdorf"
  9. "欧州の補習授業校一覧(平成25年4月15日現在)" . MEXT. Retrieved on May 10, 2014. "c/o Comenius-Schule Gieselerstr. 4, 10713 Berlin, GERMANY"
  10. "Deutsch." Zentrale Schule fur Japanisch Berlin e.V.. Retrieved on April 6, 2015. "Die Zentrale Schule für Japanisch Berlin e.V. wurde im April 1997 als gemeinnütziger Verein durch eine Elterninitiative gegründet, um Kindern und Jugendlichen aus japanischen, deutschen und interkulturellen Familien die Möglichkeit zu geben, ihre japanischen Sprachkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift zu erhalten und weiter zu entwickeln."
  11. "アクセス." Japanische Schule Bonn. Retrieved on February 14, 2015.
  12. http://www.geocities.jp/ji_bremen/ Home page
  13. "Geschichte ." Japanische Schule Köln. Retrieved on February 14, 2015. "Wir sind umgezogen. Ab 20.08.2009 findet der Unterricht in der Kaiserin-Theophanu-Schule, Kantstr. 3 in 51103 Köln-Kalk statt." Japanese version .
  14. "補習校案内." Japanische Erganzungsschule in Dresden. Retrieved on February 14, 2015.
  15. Web site: デュッセルドルフ日本語補習校 . 2010-07-17 . 2016-01-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100717054722/http://www.jisd.de/hosyuko/ . July 17, 2010 .
  16. "お問い合わせ." Japanisches Institut Frankfurt am Main e.V. Retrieved on April 2, 2015. "フランクフルト補習授業校 Japanisches Institut Frankfurt am Main e.V. Langweidenstr. 8-12 60488 Frankfurt am Main" and "Impressum." Japanisches Institut Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved on 31 March 2015. "Langweidenstr. 8-12 60488 Frankfurt am Main"
  17. "Lake, Kontakt." Japanische Erganzungsschule Heidelberg. Retrieved on February 1, 2015. Japanese version
  18. "Institute." Japanisches Institut in München e.V.. Retrieved on March 31, 2015. "Grundschule am Gärtnerpl. / Mathilde-Eller SchuleKlenzestr. 27 80469 München" and "Japanische Internationale Schule München e.V. Bleyerstr. 4 81371 München" (school locations) and "Klenzestr. 18 80469 München" (office)
  19. "Institute" (Archive). Japanisches Institut in München e.V.. Retrieved on March 31, 2015. "通常ミュンヘン市内の市立小学校の校舎をお借りしています。（通称クレンツェ校） Grundschule am Gärtnerpl. / Mathilde-Eller Schule Klenzestr. 27 80469 München" and "クレンツェ校が使用できない授業日はミュンヘン日本人国際学校の校舎をお借りしています。 Japanische Internationale Schule München e.V. Bleyerstr. 4 81371 München" (school locations) and "事務局 クレンツェ校に近接して事務局を設置しています。　事務局兼校長室と職員室（会議室）があり、入退会の受付等さまざまな業務を行っています。 住所 Klenzestr. 18 80469 München" (office location)
  20. "住所・地図・お問い合わせ." Japanische Schule Stuttgart. Retrieved on February 14, 2015.

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