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To avoid insulting Japanese trade delegations that would begin making regular visits to South Africa, Verwoerd pushed Pretoria's Group Areas Board to award Japanese the status of "honorary whites." [ 10 ] Due to inconsistencies with the apartheid, opposition party politicians and the press since the early 1960s questioned why Japanese were ...
The genesis of trade relations between Japan and the future South Africa date to 1643 when Jan van Riebeeck first arrived at Dejima in Nagasaki harbor. Reebeck accompanied Jan van Elseracq, who was the representative of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) in Japan.
At the time, Japan was going through a post-war economic miracle, and this designation assisted a trade pact formed between South Africa and Japan in the early 1960s, when Tokyo's Yawata Iron & Steel Co. offered to purchase 5 million tonnes of South African pig iron, worth more than $250 million, over a 10-year period. [3]
The Nippon Club is the only Japanese social club in South Africa. The club's dual purpose is to help enhance the unity of the Japanese South African community and to help develop evolving relationships with the South African people. The Nippon Club has fostered ongoing business and cultural relationships through various events.
Japan's largest trading partner in Africa in 1990 was South Africa, which accounted for 30% of Japan's exports to Africa and 50% of Japan's imports from the region. Because of trading sanctions imposed on South Africa by the United States and other countries, Japan emerged as South Africa's largest trading partner during the 1980s. This ...
South African people of Japanese descent (4 P) Pages in category "Japanese diaspora in South Africa" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Japan portal; South Africa portal Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. -South African expatriates in Japan (2 C, 2 P) A ...
Pages in category "Japanese people of South African descent" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.