Japanese British
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| Japanese Britons 日系イギリス人 |
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 ,  Notable Britons of Japanese origin: Kazuo Ishiguro, Iain Duncan Smith   |
| Total population |
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Est. over 100,000 |
| Regions with significant populations |
| London and Southeastern United Kingdom |
| Languages |
| English, Japanese |
| Religions |
| Mahayana Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity. |
Japanese British people (or Japanese Britons) are citizens or full time residents of the United Kingdom whose ethnic origins lie fully or partially in the East Asian nation of Japan, the Japanese population in the UK is the seventh largest overseas Japanese community in the world (after Brazil, USA, Philippines, China, Canada and Peru) and the largest and oldest in Europe, and a significant number of British people have Japanese ancestry.
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[edit] History
Settlement first began in the late 19th Century with the arrival of educated and self-sufficient Japanese professionals, students and their servants. Exactly 264 citizens of Japan were residing in the UK in 1884, the majority of whom were officials and students.[1] Employment diversified in the early 1900s with the growth of the Japanese community, which exceeded five hundred people by the close of the decade.[1]
Another wave of immigration began in the 1960s, mainly for business and economic purposes. In recent decades this number has been growing; including immigrants, students, and businessmen. Parts of the United Kingdom, in particular London, have significant Japanese populations; such as Golders Green and East Finchley North London. There are currently just over one hundred thousand British Japanese, mostly in London.
[edit] Notable persons
- Iain Duncan Smith - politician (Japanese great-grandmother)
- Miki Berenyi - singer (Japanese mother)
- Naoko Mori - actress
- Kazuo Ishiguro - novelist
- Kasumi Kitano - Actress
- Jun Tanaka - TV chef of Channel 4's Cooking It
- Karolina Tennyson (Hitomi Kiyomi) - Model & Actress
- Satoshi Date - Fashion Designer
[edit] See also
- Japanese diaspora
- Anglo-Japanese relations
- Japan Society of London
- Japanese students in the United Kingdom
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Itoh, Keiko (2001), The Japanese Community in Pre-War Britain, RoutledgeCurzon ISBN 0-7007-1487-1
[edit] External links
- The Japan Foundation
- UK Japanese forum
- Reassessing what we collect website - Japanese London History of Japanese London with objects and images
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