Japanese-Canadian
| 日系カナダ人 Nikkei Kanadajin |
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| Total population | |
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109,740 (by ancestry, 2011 Census) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec | |
| Languages | |
| English, French, and Japanese | |
| Religion | |
| Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, Irreligion, Japanese new religions | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Japanese, Japanese Americans, Japanese Brazilians, Japanese Peruvians, Japanese Mexicans |
Japanese Canadians (日系カナダ人 Nikkei Kanadajin, French: Nippo-Canadiens) are Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Canadians are mostly concentrated in Western Canada, especially in the province of British Columbia which hosts the largest Japanese community in the country with the majority of them living in and around Vancouver. In 2006, there were 98,905 Japanese Canadians throughout Canada (42,435 of whom are of mixed heritage).
The term Nikkei (日系) was coined by sociologists and encompasses all of the world's Japanese immigrants across generations. Japanese descendents living overseas have special names for each of their generations. These are formed by combining one of the Japanese numerals with the Japanese word for generation (sei 世):ada:
The first Japanese settler in Canada was Manzo Nagano, who lived in Victoria, British Columbia (a mountain in the province was named after him in 1977). The first generation, or Issei, mostly came to Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley and Rivers Inlet from fishing villages on the islands of Kyūshū and Honshū between 1877 and 1928. Since 1967, the second wave of immigrants were usually highly educated and resided in urban areas.
Until 1948, Japanese-Canadians—both Issei and Canadian-born Nisei—were denied the right to vote. Those born in the 1950s and 1960s in Canada are mostly Sansei, third generation. Sansei usually have little knowledge of the Japanese language. Over 75% of the Sansei have married non-Japanese. Nisei and Sansei generally do not identify themselves as fully Japanese, but as Canadians first, who happen to be of Japanese ancestry.
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