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Japanese Mexicans are Mexican citizens of Japanese descent. Organized Japanese immigration to Mexico occurred in the 1890s with the foundation of a coffee-growing colony in the state of Chiapas . Although this initiative failed, it was followed by greater immigration from 1900 to the beginning of World War II .
The Mexican government required all Japanese immigrants to move to either Guadalajara or Mexico City after it declared war against Japan in 1942, [6] and relocation began in January of that year. [4] Most Japanese moved to Mexico City instead of Guadalajara because there was a pre-existing Japanese community. [6]
Japanese tea ceremony in Mexico City. Most Japanese immigrants came from Okinawa, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Aichi, and Miyagi prefectures. The Liceo Mexicano Japonés in Mexico City was founded, in part, to preserve Japanese culture. There has been a notable influx of young Japanese artists into Mexico since 1978, who have settled mostly in Mexico City.
Mexican people of Asian ... Chinese diaspora in Mexico (4 C, 4 P) J. Japanese diaspora in Mexico (1 C, 9 P) K. Korean diaspora in Mexico (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category ...
Japanese emigrants to Mexico (6 P) P. ... Pages in category "Mexican people of Japanese descent" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Mexican people of Japanese descent (2 C, 38 P) Pages in category "Japanese diaspora in Mexico" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Liceo Mexicano Japonés, A.C. (Spanish for 'Mexican-Japanese Lyceum'); Japanese: 社団法人日本メキシコ学院, romanized: Shadan Hōjin Nihon Mekishiko Gakuin, or Japanese: 日墨学院, romanized: Nichiboku Gakuin, transl. Japan-Mexico Institute) is a Japanese school based in the Pedregal neighborhood of the Álvaro Obregón borough in southern Mexico City, Mexico.
Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony, 1897–1945 is a 2014 non-fiction book by Jerry García, published by The University of Arizona Press. It discusses the treatment of Mexicans of Japanese descent and Japanese nationals in Mexico during World War II, as well as the overall history from 1897 to the war ...