Japanese in Germany
| Total population | |
|---|---|
|
70,000 (with Japanese ancestry) 36,960 (Japanese citizens) |
|
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Düsseldorf • Berlin • Frankfurt | |
| Languages | |
| German • Japanese |
70,000 (with Japanese ancestry)
There is a community of Japanese people in Germany, consisting mainly of expatriates from Japan as well as German citizens of Japanese descent.
In 1932 Berlin was the home of about 20% of all of the Japanese people in Europe and Germany had become a centre for Japanese people sent by the Japanese Ministry of Education to study in Europe. In 1936 the Japanese people were declared Honorary Aryans by the Nazis. At the time of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor about 300 Japanese people lived in Berlin. Around that time fewer than 200 Japanese women and children previously in Germany returned to Japan by ship. They boarded the Yasukunimaru, a ship operated by NYK Line, in Hamburg.
In 1985 there were about 16,500 Japanese persons living in West Germany. The largest group, making up about 6,000, resided in Düsseldorf, and there were other Japanese communities in Berlin and Hamburg.
In 1963 there were 800 Japanese people in Hamburg, including 50 children.
As of 1985 over 90% of ethnic Japanese households in West Germany had an affluent corporate executive as the head of the household. This executive often stays in Germany for three to five years.
As of 1985 company employees arriving in Germany often move into residences formerly occupied by those returning to Japan.
In 1975, 195,350 Japanese people visited West Germany. In 1984 that figure was about 400,000.
There are five nihonjin gakkō (Japanese international elementary and junior schools operated by Japanese associations) in Germany:
The Toin Gakuen Schule Deutschland, a Japanese boarding high school/gymnasium in Bad Saulgau classified as a shiritsu zaigai kyōiku shisetsu (overseas branch of a Japanese private school) was scheduled to close in 2012.
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