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Vietnamese people in Japan

Vietnamese people in Japan
在日ベトナム人
Total population
146,956 (2015)
Regions with significant populations
Tokyo, Osaka
Languages
Japanese, Vietnamese
Religion
Buddhism,Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Vietnamese people

Vietnamese people in Japan (在日ベトナム人 Zainichi Betonamujin?) form Japan's fifth-largest community of foreign residents ahead of Americans in Japan and behind Brazilians in Japan, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Justice. By the end of 2015, there were 146,956 residents. The majority of the Vietnamese legal residents live in the Kantō region and Greater Osaka.

Large numbers of Vietnamese students began to choose Japan as a destination in the early 20th century, spurred by the exiled prince Cuong De and the Đông Du Movement (literally, "Travel East movement" or "Eastern Travel movement") he and Phan Boi Chau pioneered. By 1908, 200 Vietnamese students had gone to study at Japanese universities. However, the community of Vietnamese people in Japan is dominated by Vietnam War refugees and their families, who compose about 70% of the total population. Japan began to accept refugees from Vietnam in the late 1970s. The policy of accepting foreign migrants marked a significant break from Japan's post-World War II orientation towards promoting and maintaining a myth of a racially homogeneous Japan. Most of these migrants settled in Kanagawa and Hyōgo prefectures, the locations of the initial resettlement centres. As they moved out of the resettlement centres, they often gravitated to Zainichi Korean-dominated neighbourhoods; however, they feel little sense of community with Zainichi Koreans, seeing them not as fellow ethnic minorities but as part of the mainstream.


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