Updated 11 Jun 2022
Record Number of Japanese Living Overseas This article explains the increase in the overall number of Japanese people living abroad, which are the most popular countries, and the breakdown by gender and age of Japanese people abroad. Nippon.com, 10 Jul 2018.
A little corner of Brazil that is forever Okinawa About the history of Japanese migration to Brazil, including from Okinawa and at the Liberdade district of Sao Paulo, a Japan town in Brazil. BBC News, 4 Feb 2018.
Countries with the highest number of Japanese residents in 2020 This only includes those with Japanese nationality living abroad not Nikkeijin who don't have Japanese nationality, many of whom live in Brazil. Statista, 2022.
The Japanese Diaspora The Japanese diaspora and its individual members, known as Nikkei (日系) or as Nikkeijin (日系人), comprise the Japanese emigrants from Japan (and their descendants) residing in a country outside Japan.
Education ministry failing to address teacher shortfall at overseas Japanese schools, report finds Despite a recent surge in the number of Japanese school-age children living overseas, the education ministry has failed to dispatch enough teachers to Japanese schools abroad over the past decade, causing an acute labor shortage at those institutions, a Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications report warned Friday. Japan Times, 21 Aug 2015.
Shedding The Unwanted: Japan's Emigration Policy by Toake Endoh, Japan Policy Research Institute, Working Paper No. 72: October 2000. "Japan's emigration policy, particularly its sending of some 300,000 Japanese to Latin America and the Caribbean, lasted from the 1920s until the 1960s.....Under what conditions, both global and domestic, did this policy emerge? What was the state's motivation or intent, and where did the emigrants originate?"
Japanese citizens living abroad An article looking at the numbers of Japanese living abraod in Western and non-Western countries, where Japanese people decide to take perment residence abroad and the motivations of Japanese people for living abroad. Japan Reference, 24 Sept 2005.
Website of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
Discover Nikkei To promote cross-cultural understanding and to foster greater linkages between peoples throughout the world by making accessible resources and materials related to the Nikkei, people of Japanese descent who have migrated and settled throughout the world.
Absentee ballot system up, running: Expats won hard-fought battle but suffrage still eludes foreign permanent residents It was only a decade ago, however, that Japanese living abroad won the right to vote in national polls. They had to campaign actively before politicians were pushed into establishing this right....Another issue being considered is allowing foreign nationals with permanent resident status to vote in local-level elections. Japan Times, June 3, 2008.
Home is where hardship is for Japanese returnees: Settling in poses myriad problems for those back from abroad This is an article about culture shock for people returning 'home' after spending time abraod. Although this affects people everywhere, the article suggest Japanese people may suffer more than those who grew up in a multicultural society in the West. Japan Times, April 19, 2005.
'Nikkei' craft own unique ethnicity, samba to manga An article about Igor Inocima, whose grandparents emigrated from Hokkaido to Brazil about 80 years ago. Inocima talking about setting up a company that has grown into Brazil's largest manga publisher, and about Nikkei identity. Japan Times, June 19, 2008.
Immigrants weave tale of triumph: Starting from zero, Japanese in Brazil have carved out a prominent role in society When the Kasato Maru arrived in Brazil with the first Japanese immigrants at Santos port near Sao Paulo on June 18, 1908, a shipload of Okinawans and other Japanese disembarked and headed out to find work on the coffee plantations, seeking a better life. For the past 100 years, the lives of the Japanese immigrants and their descendants have been filled with high hopes, disappointments, perseverance, strife and prosperity....Japan Times, June 20, 2008.
Returnees to Brazil finding it tough Many Brazilians of Japanese ancestry returning to Brazil from recession-struck Japan are struggling to find work, according to Grupo Nikkei, an NGO set up to support the job-seekers. The Asahi Shimbun, April 17, 2009.
Recommendations of Overseas Emigration Council Future Policy Regarding Cooperation with Overseas Communities of Nikkei A report for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dec 11, 2000. It also has recommendations on Japanese language education for Nikkei and on the employment of Nikkei in Japan.
Japanese living overseas in record numbers: survey A record 839,138 Japanese nationals were living overseas on a long-term basis as of Oct. 1, up 3.4 percent from the previous high posted a year earlier, Foreign Ministry officials said Monday. Female Japanese residing overseas in 2001 outnumbered males for the third consecutive year, with the percentage standing at 51.2 percent, according to the officials. Japan Times, Feb. 5, 2002.
More Japanese women pursuing careers overseas Fed up with male-dominated Japanese companies bound by the seniority system, an increasing number of women believe working abroad, especially in China and elsewhere in Asia, could be the solution. Japan Times, Jan. 14, 2003. Japan Times, Feb. 5, 2002.
Japan Overseas Educational Services JOES provides services to Japanese families living abroad and to those who have returned, particularly about education for their children.