| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Mainland China: 171,763 (2018) Hong Kong: 27,429 (2018)[1]note Macau: 4,200 (2018)[2] Taiwan: 24,280 (2018)[3] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Beijing · Suzhou · Shanghai · Guangzhou · Hong Kong · Macau · Taipei · Kaohsiung | |
| Languages | |
| Japanese · Mandarin · Cantonese · Hokkien · English | |
| Religion | |
| Buddhism · Shinto | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Japanese people in Hong Kong |
| Japanese people in China | |||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 日裔中國人 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 日裔中国人 | ||||||||
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| Japanese name | |||||||||
| Kanji | 在中日本人 | ||||||||
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Japanese people in China (Japanese:在中日本人,Chinese:日裔中國人, also known asJapanese-Chinese orSino-Japanese) areJapanese expatriates and emigrants and their descendants residing inGreater China. In October 2018, there were 171,763 Japanese nationals living in thePeople's Republic of China (excluding thespecial administrative regions ofHong Kong andMacau), and 24,280 Japanese nationals living in theRepublic of China (Taiwan).[3]
From 630 to 894 AD, Japan sent nineteen diplomatic missions to China started by EmperorJomei. During this time, many Japanese doctors studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as many artists learning Chinese art techniques that would be brought to Japan. It is known that a third of the Japanese sent to China during missions did not return home.Tang dynasty China received 11 Japanese dancers as tribute fromBalhae in year 777.
During theSecond Sino-Japanese War, theJapanese government introduced a plan to settle 5 million Japanese inManchukuo. However, following the end of the war, approximately 2,800Japanese orphans in China were left behind by families repatriating to Japan.[4]
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).[5] Because they had children fathered by Chinese men, the Japanese women were not allowed to bring their children back with them to Japan so most of them stayed, as the Japanese law only allowed children fathered by Japanese men to become Japanese citizens.
In 2000s, moreJapanese were coming toChina due to its opening up and economic reforms, and Japanese nationals living in China increased roughly three times from 46,000 to 140,134 in proportion to the growth in trade volume between the two countries.[6][7]
The2010 Census of the People's Republic of China recorded 66,159 foreign nationals from Japan residing inMainland China (figure excluding Hong Kong and Macau),[8] representing nearly half of the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry figure. The number of Japanese emigrants to China and their descendants are unknown.[9][6] However, the peak was 2012 and recently decreasing.[9] In 2018, the permanent resident ratio is only 2.7%.[9]
As of October 2018, the number of Japanese nationals living in China is 140,134 (excluding 25,705 inHong Kong and 4,200 inMacau) according to a report by the JapaneseMinistry of Foreign Affairs, the third largest group ofJapanese people outside Japan after theUnited States andBrazil.[9]
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Shanghai has the largest concentration of Japanese nationals in Greater China.[9][10] As of October 2018, 40,747 Japanese nationals are living in Shanghai.[9] The second-largest concentrated city isHong Kong and the third isTaipei.[9]
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The following are approved by theJapanese Ministry of Education (MEXT):
Unrecognized by MEXT:
