NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Filipinos of Japanese descent

Filipinos of Japanese descent constitute a Philippine ethnic group of Japanese descent, including, but not limited to, mestizos. They include descendants of the Japanese traders/merchants who settled there in pre-Spanish territorial period and descendants of Japanese Catholics who fled from the religious persecution imposed by the shoguns and settled during colonial period. For the article on the capital city of the Philippines, see Manila. ... Davao refers to several places in Mindanao in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao Visayas is one of the three island groupings in the Philippines along with Luzon and Mindanao. ... Pangasinan, officially Province of Pangasinan (Pangasinan: Luyag na Pangasinan), is one of the provinces of the Republic of the Philippines. ... REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Province of Ilocos Norte Region: Ilocos Region (Region I) Capital: Laoag City Founded: â€” Population: 2000 censusâ€”514,241 (48th largest) Densityâ€”151 per kmÂ² (27th lowest) Area: 3,399. ... La Union is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. ... Ilocano, also Iloko and Ilokano, refers to the language and culture associated with the Ilocano people, the third largest ethnic group in the Philippines. ... The Pangasinan language (Pangasinan: salitan Pangasinan; Spanish: idioma pangasinense) belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian languages branch of the Austronesian languages family. ... Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... The Visayan languages of the Philippines, along with Tagalog and Bikol, are part of the Central Philippine language family. ... Philippine English is the variation of English used in the Philippines by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos. ... The Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome. ... The Austronesian people are a population group in Oceania and Southeast Asia who speak or had ancestors who spoke one of the Austronesian languages. ... As of July 1, 2005, the population of the Philippines is estimated to be 87,857,473. ... Filipino mestizo is a term used in the Philippines, to designate Filipino peoples of mixed Austronesian and European ancestry. ... Kirishitan (å‰åˆ©æ”¯ä¸¹, åˆ‡æ”¯ä¸¹) meant Christian(s) in Japanese and is today used as a historiographic term for Christians in Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries. ...

Many of them also intermarried with the local Filipina women (including those of mixed or unmixed Spanish descent), thus forming the new Japanese mestizo community. A sizeable population settled in Manila, Davao, the Visayas and in the 1600s in Dilao, Paco, and along Lingayen Gulf, where notable settlements dating back to the 12th century exist, and Ilocos Norte Province. This hybrid group tend to be re-assimilated either into the Filipino or the Japanese, and thus no accurate denominations could be established, though their estimates range from 100,000 to 200,000. Many have been killed or expelled after World War II. Many Japanese mestizos tend to deny their Japanese heritage in order to avoid discrimination. The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines and one of the municipalities that comprise Metro Manila. ... Davao refers to several places in Mindanao in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao Visayas is one of the three island groupings in the Philippines along with Luzon and Mindanao. ... Dilao located in Paco, a district in Manila, and was a settlement of 3000 Japanese during the Spanish era around the year 1600. ... The Lingayen Gulf is an extension of the South China Sea on Luzon in the Philippines. ... REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES Province of Ilocos Norte Region: Ilocos Region (Region I) Capital: Laoag City Founded: â€” Population: 2000 censusâ€”514,241 (48th largest) Densityâ€”151 per kmÂ² (27th lowest) Area: 3,399. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

During the American colonial era, the number of Japanese laborers working in plantations rose so high that in the 1900's, Davao soon became dubbed as a Ko Nippon Koku (Little Japan in Japanese) with a Japanese school, a Shinto temple and a diplomatic mission from Japan. There is even a popular restaurant called "The Japanese Tunnel", which includes an actual tunnel made by the Japanese in time of the war. Davao refers to several places in Mindanao in the Philippines. ...

Because of discrimination encountered, some fled to the mountains after World War II while many others changed their names in the attempts to assimilate. Many were also killed (c. 10,000 Japanese Mestizos and Japanese) while other were deported following World War II as an act of retaliation. Their sense of Japaneseness may take on extremes, some have completely lost their Japanese identity while others have "returned" to Japan, the homeland of their forebears. There is also a number of contemporary Japanese-mestizos, not associated with the history of the earlier established ones, born either in the Philippines or Japan. These latter are the resultant of unions between Filipinos and recent Japanese immigrants to the Philippines or Japanese and immigrant Filipino workers in Japan. Most Japanese mestizos speak tribal languages and Tagalog. They may also be known as Japinos, although this term is considered derogatory by many. There are believed to be between 100,000 and 200,000 Japanese-mestizos in the country, but no accurate figure is currently available. Thousands of war-displaced ethnic Japanese still live in the country and are denied of recognition as Japanese nationals in order to return to Japan.

The recent Filipinos of Japanese descent are descendants of 1980s and 1990s Japanese settlers, most of whom are men, businesspeoples, and even married locals (mostly females). Many are children of thousands of Japayukis who went to Japan mostly as entertainers, helpers, and maids. As the Japayuki Filipina mothers return to the Philippines, most take their children. A significant number in the US today are the product of Filipino- and Japanese American intermarriages mostly in California, Hawaii and other US territories in the Pacific, while others are Filipinos of Japanese ancestry who migrated to the United States. Prostitution in Japan has a long and varied history. ...

Several foundations today such as the Federation of Nikkeijin Kai Philippines exist throughout the country through the efforts of prosperous Japanese descendants and expatriates to assist Filipinos of Japanese ancestry to travel in Japan to trace their roots and visit relatives, and also charity purposes such as offering working visas and educational scholarships of impoverished children of Japanese descent. Similar organizations exist in the Visayas to commemorate and signify the historical migration of peoples of Japanese descent in the region.

Prominent Filipinos of Japanese descent

For a list of prominent or noteworthy Filipinos of Japanese descent, see Category:Filipinos of Japanese descent.

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Prominent Filipinos of Japanese descent