Japanese Peruvian

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Japanese Peruvians are people of Japanese decent living in Peru. This ethnic group among other East Asians make up 3% of the total population of Peru. Peru has the second largest population of people of Japanese descent in Latin America after Brazil. Many of them traveled to Japan in the 1980s as the economic situation in Peru got worse. Others traveled to the United States. Many came back after the Japanese-Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori stabilized the economy.

In the case of Peru, comparing with other countries, Japanese people and descendents were adapted to this country and the People, most of them arrived as farmers or for work in the country-side, but after completed their respective contracts they moved to the cities and became involved in business as merchants or restaurant's owners. Japanese People are well know in peru for being hard workers and optimistic people, they came to Peru mostly escaping for hunger as many Japanese people were going back that days.. The Population of Japanese people and Japanese descendents are mostly from Gifu Ken, Hiroshima Ken, Osaka, Kanagawa ken but the most representative part are the people from Okinawa that represents almoust 75% of the population of inmigrants. A big difference of Japanese people from other countries is that Mostly the total of this Japanese descendents form part of the Middle class, and almoust 75% of Japanese descendents are University graduated, they are the only community that has almoust the most prestigious status in the Society of Peru, with mostly 50% of his community being part of the commerce, and they all also highly educated.

Now Days many Japanese of second and third generations "Nissei" and "Sanssei" are also working in Japan this people forms part mostly from the bad politics of governments during the 80's after the ex president Alan Garcia. Still they are many Japanese-Peruvians who live in Japan they are well know for being hard-workers.

Despite being a relatively recent ethnic group, the median household income for Japanese-Peruvians meets the average Japanese household income [1] and 25% of all Peruvians over the age of 25 have college degrees [2] slightly exceeding the national average of 24%.