Nikkeijin

The picture I come away with is one of much better economic times ahead for the descendants of the long-suffering Sakhalin Koreans, although they will face a new round of cultural adjustments very similar to those faced by the many Latin American Nikkeijin now working in Japan.

Sakhalin Koreans and Business Development « Far Outliers 2004

They are Nikkeijin, ethnic Japanese, or fractionally ethnic Japanese, who are descendants of emigrants from Japan who went to South America in search of agricultural work.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

One station down from the Nikkeijin are three Chinese workers in goggles and work clothes.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

The Nikkeijin on the Taisei shop floor hail from Brazil and Peru.

Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

Typically, a Nikkeijin earns $2,500 a month in a Japanese factory, more than even doctors, lawyers and professors in Brazil.

The Japan That Can Say Yes 2008

Known as Nikkeijin, these second - and third-generation descendants of Japanese migrants to Latin America have stampeded in.

The Japan That Can Say Yes 2008

Envisioned as a labor source that wouldn't threaten the country's monoculture, Nikkeijin proved to be as foreign as their passports.

The Japan That Can Say Yes 2008

Their descendants were discriminated against for decades, but by the 1990s a “Nikkeijin movement” began to arise, and interest in Japanese connections has grown with the availability of Nikkei visas.

井の中の蛙 » Japanese Diaspora at ASPAC » Print 2007

Their descendants were discriminated against for decades, but by the 1990s a “Nikkeijin movement” began to arise, and interest in Japanese connections has grown with the availability of Nikkei visas.

Japanese Diaspora at ASPAC 2007

More than 250,000 Nikkeijin, mainly from Brazil, now work in Japan….

2004 January 08 « Far Outliers 2004