From DiscoverNikkei.org
Encyclopedia of Nikkei Migration
日系移民史百科事典 - Enciclopedia de migración nikkei - Enciclopédia do migração nikkei
Did you know that the Nikkei live in more than fifty countries? Read short historical overviews of Japanese migration that highlight the major experiences of the Nikkei in selected countries. Find out where we got our information and follow your own research interests using the bibliographies. Selected weblinks offer additional resources on Nikkei immigration and citizenship in different countries. Explore our interactive timeline of Japanese emigration. Finally, the demographics section includes interactive maps and data tables showing Japanese emigration by prefecture, Japanese emigration by region, and demographics in 1993.
Information in this section is drawn from, and expands upon, the Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, ed. (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2002). Also available in Japanese as 『アメリカ大陸日系人百科事典―写真と絵で見る日系人の歴史』 (明石書店, 2002).
Demographics
Japanese Prewar Emigration by Prefecture, 1899-1941
Statistical tables.
Source: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Kaigai ijū tōkei (FY 1952-FY 1993) (Tōkyō, 1994), 133.
Japanese Postwar Emigration by Prefecture, 1952-1993
Statistical tables.
Source: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Kaigai ijū tōkei (FY 1952-FY 1993) (Tōkyō, 1994), 25.
Japanese Immigration to the Americas, Southeast Asia and Oceania, and Asian Continent: Prewar (1868-1941), Wartime (1941-1945), and Postwar (1945-1989)
Interactive map |
Statistical tables
Sources:
- Mark R. Peattie, Nan'yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 (Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1988), 334, n.6.
- Wakatsuki Yasuo, Sengo hikiage no kiroku (Tokyo: Jiji Tsoshinsha, 1995), 16-17, 85.
- JICA, Kaigai ijū tōkei (Tōkyō, 1994), 122, 126-27.
Nikkei World Demographics, 1993
Interactive map | Statistical tables
Sources:
- Japan International Cooperation Agency, Kaigai ijū tōkei (FY 1952-FY1993) (Tōkyō, 1994), 124-125. The data were originally collected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and reported in Kaigai zairyū hōjinsū chōsa tōkei. The number includes the permanent resident and Nikkei population. Nikkei is defined as those who do not have Japanese citizenship but are descendant of the Japanese (naturalized Issei, Nisei, and Sansei etc.).
- Compiled by Marcelo Higa from Nyūkoku Kanrikyoku (eds.). Zairyū gaikokujin tōkei, 1998.