| Group: | Peruvians in Japan Peruanos en Japón 在日ペルー人 Zainichi Perūjin |
| Population: | 49,114 (in December, 2023)[1] [2] |
| Popplace: | Greater Tokyo Area, Isesaki,[3] Chūkyō Metropolitan Area (near Nagoya) |
| Langs: | Japanese and Peruvian Spanish |
| Related-C: | Peruvians, Japanese Argentines, Japanese Uruguayans, Japanese Brazilians |
There are in December 2023 49,114 Peruvians in Japan.[4] [5] The majority of them are descendants of earlier Japanese immigrants to Peru who have repatriated to Japan.
In 1990, Japan introduced a new ethnicity-based immigration policy which aimed to encourage Japanese descendants overseas to come to Japan and fill the country's need for foreign workers. From 1992 to 1997, data from Peru's Ministry of the Interior showed Japan as the fourteenth-most popular destination for Peruvian emigrants, behind the Netherlands and ahead of Costa Rica.
Among the expatriate communities in Japan, Peruvians accounted for the smallest share of those who returned to their homelands after the global recession began in 2008. In January 2013, a number of Peruvian organizations came together to form the Asociacion de Peruanos en Japon (Association of Peruvians in Japan), dedicated to facilitating integration into Japanese society.[6]
There are the following Peruvian international schools (ペルー学校) in Japan: