Japanese people in China
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 127,282 (2009) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Beijing · Shanghai · Harbin · Guangzhou | |
| Languages | |
| Mandarin · Cantonese · Japanese | |
| Religion | |
| Buddhism · Shintoism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Japanese people in Hong Kong |
Japanese people in China are Japanese expatriates and emigrants and their descendants residing in Greater China. There were 127,282 Japanese nationals living in People's Republic of China in 2009. About 105,764 Japanese nationals resided in Mainland China, 27,429 in Hong Kong and Macau, about 20,373 in Republic of China.
Tang dynasty China received 11 Japanese girl dancers as tribute from Balhae in 777.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese government introduced a plan to settle 5 million Japanese in Manchukuo. Following the end of the war, approximately 2,800 Japanese orphans in China were left behind by families repatriating back to Japan. The majority of Japanese left behind in China were women, and these Japanese women mostly married Chinese men and became known as "stranded war wives" (残留婦人? zanryū fujin). Because they had children fathered by Chinese men, the Japanese women were not allowed to bring their Chinese families back with them to Japan so most of them stayed. Japanese law only allowed children fathered by Japanese fathers to become Japanese citizens.
As of October 2009, the number of Japanese nationals living in China is 127,282 (including 21,518 in Hong Kong and Macau) according to a report by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the third largest group of Japanese people outside Japan after Brazil and United States. However, the 2010 Census of the People's Republic of China recorded 66,159 foreign nationals from Japan residing in Mainland China (figure excluding Hong Kong and Macau), representing nearly half of the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry figure. The number of Japanese emigrants to China and their descendants are unknown.
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