Japanese British

Infobox Ethnic group
group = Japanese Britons
"日系イギリス人"



poptime = Est. over 100,000Fact|date=August 2008 0.17% of the UK population
popplace = London and Southeastern United Kingdom
langs = English, Japanese
rels = Mahayana Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity.

Japanese British people (or Japanese Britons) are citizens or full time residents of the United Kingdom whose ethnic origins lie fully or partially in the East Asian nation of Japan, the Japanese population in the UK is the seventh largest overseas Japanese community in the world (after Brazil, USA, Philippines, China, Canada and Peru) and the largest and oldest in Europe,Fact|date=August 2008 and a significant number of British people have Japanese ancestry.

History

Settlement first began in the late 19th Century with the arrival of educated and self-sufficient Japanese professionals, students and their servants. Exactly 264 citizens of Japan resided in Britain in 1884, the majority of whom identified themselves as officials and students.Itoh (2001), p1] Employment diversified in the early 1900s with the growth of the Japanese community, which exceeded five hundred people by the close of the first decade of the 20th Century.

As tensions escalated between Japan and the UK throughout the course of World War II, some Japanese left their home country to come to the United Kingdom. Another wave of immigration began in the 1960s, mainly for business and economic purposes. In recent decades this number has been growing; including immigrants, students, and businessmen. Parts of the United Kingdom, in particular London, have significant Japanese populations; such as Golders Green and East Finchley North London. There are currently just over one hundred thousand British Japanese, mostly in London.

Notable persons

*Miki Berenyi - singer (Japanese mother)
*Naoko Mori - actress
*Kazuo Ishiguro - novelist
*Haruka Kuroda- actress and voice of Noodle from the band Gorillaz
*Jun Tanaka - TV chef of Channel 4's "Cooking It"
*Satoshi Date - fashion designer
*Taka Hirose, Bassist for the Welsh band Feeder
*Karolina Tennyson, Model (Canadian born father raised in Wales)

ee also

*Japanese diaspora
*Anglo-Japanese relations
*Japan Society of London
*Japanese students in the United Kingdom

Notes

References

*Itoh, Keiko (2001), "The Japanese Community in Pre-War Britain", RoutledgeCurzon ISBN 0-7007-1487-1

External links

* [http://www.jpf.org.uk/about.html The Japan Foundation]
* [http://japanese.meetup.com/34/ UK Japanese forum]
* [http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/Onlineresources/RWWC/themes/1084/1270 Reassessing what we collect website - Japanese London] History of Japanese London with objects and images