Japanese Paraguayans
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Hapõ-paraguaigua Japonés Paraguayo 日系パラグアイ人 Nikkei Paraguaijin | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 5,441 Japanese nationals 10,000 Paraguayans of Japanese descent[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Asunción, La Colmena, several cities in Itapúa and rural areas of the nation | |
| Languages | |
| Spanish, Guaraní, Japanese | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism, Buddhism, Shinto | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Japanese diaspora, Japanese Americans, Japanese Canadians, Japanese Mexicans, Japanese Peruvians, Japanese Brazilians |
Japanese Paraguayans (Spanish: Japonés Paraguayo; Japanese: 日系パラグアイ人, Nikkei Paraguaijin; Guarani: Hapõ-paraguaigua) are Paraguayans of Japanese ethnicity.
Religion
[edit]First-generation Japanese Paraguayans were generally followers of Shinto and Buddhism. The first Japanese settlers at La Colmena brought a piece of stone from the Ise Shrine which was gazetted as a monument mark the settlement's founding. Japanese religious festivals were celebrated within the first few decades among the first and second-generation Japanese settlers and in the late 1960s, a majority identified themselves with the Buddhist and Shinto faiths. Conversion to Roman Catholic Christianity increased from the late 1970s onwards.[2]
Education
[edit]In Asunción, there are the Japanese international school: Colegio Japonés en Asunción (アスンシオン日本人学校 Asunshion Nihonjin Gakkō),[3] and the Paraguayan-Japanese Center, which promotes Japanese culture in Paraguay and develops intercultural activities with the two countries[4] and the Paraguayan-Japanese financial brokerage company,[5] in Encarnación, the Japanese Association of Encarnación, Asociación Japonesa de Encarnación[6] and in Ciudad del Este, the Japanese Association of the East Asociación Japonesa del Este and the Escuela Japonesa de Ciudad del Este Primary School.[7][8]
Notable people
[edit]- Mitsuhide Tsuchida, footballer[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ パラグアイ共和国基礎データ
- ^ Masterson/Funada-Classen (2004), p. 103
- ^ Home page Archived 2006-08-07 at the Wayback Machine. Colegio Japonés en Asunción. Retrieved on January 15, 2015. "住所 Perenciolo Merlo esq. Cnel. Alejo Silva Casilla de Correo N°2404 Asuncion,Paraguay"
- ^ "Centro Paraguayo Japonés". www.culturasu.webflow.io. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "Financiera Paraguayo Japonesa". www.fpj.com.py/. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "Asociación Japonesa de Encarnación". www.identidadnikkei.org.py. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "Asociación Japonesa del Este – la Federación de Asociaciones Japonesas en Paraguay".
- ^ "Escuela Japonesa de Ciudad del Este – la Federación de Asociaciones Japonesas en Paraguay".
- ^ "¿Qué pasó del samurái pedrojuanino?" (in Spanish). La Nación. 2 January 2022.
Bibliography
[edit]- Masterson, Daniel M. and Sayaka Funada-Classen. (2004), The Japanese in Latin America: The Asian American Experience. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07144-7; OCLC 253466232
