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About Immigrants Overseas
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About Immigrants Overseas
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（１）Beginning of overseas immigration
Emigration to Hawaii begin in 1868; continue for the next 130 years
（２）Number of overseas immigrants
780,000 people pre-war; 260,000 people post-war; 1,040,000 total
（３）Number of Ethnic Japanese Abroad
Approximately 2,500,000 people
Brazil:1,300,000; USA: 1,000,000 (240,000 in Hawaii); Peru: 80,000; Canada: 55,000; Argentina: 32,000; Mexico: 12,000
※Overseas immigrants are defined as thouse who immigrate overseas for long-term purposes, or acquire permanent residency in that country.
Ethnic Japanese abroad are those who live abroad as permanent residents as well as their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generataion of descendents, including non-Japanese citizens or multiracial descendents.
It is not decided until which generation of descendents will be considered of ethnic Japanese.
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Overseas Immigration from Fukuoka Prefecture
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（１）Beginning
Overseas Immigration began in 1885 to Hawaii, and continued for the next 115 years.
（２）Total number of immigrants（excluding free immigrants）
Pre-war ５１，２４０people（7.8％ of total Japanese emigration）
Post-war ４，５３６people（6.2％ of total Japanese emigration）
（3,550 people to Brazil, 502 people to Paraguay）
・Total： ５５，７７６ people（4th in the nation）
First： Hiroshima 98,975 people
Second： Okinawa 79,454 people
Third： Kumamoto 72,699 people
Fourth： Fukuoka 55,776 people
Fifth： Yamaguchi 47,430 people
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（３）Fukuoka Descendents Overseas
Approximately 200,000 people (120,000 in Brazil)
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Immigration Statistics
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