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It was founded on November 3, 1917, under the name of Central Japanese Society (Spanish: Sociedad Central Japonesa) and has its institutional headquarters (as well as a museum about Japanese Immigration) in the building of the Peruvian Japanese Cultural Center , located in the district of Jesús María, in Lima, Peru. [1] [2]
This community has made a significant cultural impact on the country, [4] and as of the 2017 Census in Peru, 22,534 people or 0.2% of the Peruvian population self reported themselves as having Nikkei or Japanese ancestry, [5] though the Japanese government estimates that at least 200,000 Peruvians have some degree of Japanese ancestry.
According to early Spanish articles, the Lima area was once called Itchyma, [citation needed] after its original inhabitants. However, even before the Inca occupation of the area in the 15th century, a famous oracle in the Rímac Valley had come to be known by visitors as Limaq (Limaq, pronounced , which means "talker" or "speaker" in the coastal Quechua that was the area's primary language ...
Monument to the Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima. In July 1990, Alberto Fujimori became the first Peruvian President of Japanese origin. Some months after President Fujimori's election, several Japanese and Peruvians of Japanese origin were assaulted, kidnapped or killed by Peru's two main guerrilla groups, the Shining Path and the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. [5]
The Lima culture was an indigenous civilization which existed in modern-day Lima, Peru during the Early Intermediate Period, extending from roughly 100 to 650. This pre-Incan culture, which overlaps with surrounding Paracas, Moche, and Nasca civilizations, was located in the desert coastal strip of Peru in the Chillon, Rimac and Lurin River valleys.
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However, according to the 2009 census, it was estimated that 5% (or 1.2 million) of the 29 million Peruvians in 2009 had Chinese roots and ancestry, [4] [5] while 160,000 Peruvians in 2015 had Japanese roots and ancestry. [6] [7] [8] Today it is believed that the Asian population in Peru would be from 3 to 10% of the population.
The Allies occupied Japan until 1952, during which a new constitution was enacted in 1947 that transformed Japan into the constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy it is today. After 1955, Japan enjoyed very high economic growth under the governance of the Liberal Democratic Party , and became a world economic powerhouse .