The Japanese Filipinos are ethnic Japanese born in the Philippines. The first group includes descendants of the Japanese traders who settled there in pre-Spanish territorial period and the second group includes descendants of Japanese Catholics who fled from the religious prosecution imposed by the shoguns and settled during colonial period. The term Ethnic Japanese usually refers to people who live outside Japan, who either emigrated from Japan or are descendants of a person who emigated from Japan. ...

Many of them also intermarried with the local Filipina women (including those of pure or mixed Spanish descent), thus forming the new Japanese-Mestizo community. A sizeable population settled in Manila and Davao and in the 1600s in Dilao, Paco and some in 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. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES City of Manila Region: National Capital Region Province: — Dates: Founded—June 24, 1571 Cityhood—June 10, 1574 Population: 2000 census—1,581,082 Density—41,014 per km² Area: 38. ... Davao refers to several places in Mindanao in the Philippines. ... Dilao located in Paco, a district in Manila, and was a settlement of 3000 Japanese during the Spanish era around the year 1600. ... Ilocos Norte is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the...

The recent Japanese Filipinos are descendants of 1980's and 1990's 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 maid. As the Japayuki Filipina mothers return to the Philippines, most take their children.

List of Japanese Filipinos

Unmixed Japanese-Filipinos

• Dom Justo Takayama
• Sister Theresia Unno

Dom Justo Takayama (1552 - 1615) was a daimyo born in the Yamato Province in Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate. ... Sister Theresia Unno was a Japanese Catholic nun who committed herself to helping the Japanese Mestizos living in poverty at Baguio, Philippines. ...

Japanese Mestizo

• Tamlyn Tomita
• Akiko Thomson
• Gai Ono
• Kenneth Natori Jr.
• Akemi Cynthia Paule Uchima (Minami Saori in Japanese)
• Emi Cathy Watanabe

Tamlyn Tomita (Born January 27, 1966, Okinawa) is a Half-Japanese and Half-Filipino actress who starred in many Hollywood films. ... Akemi Cynthia Paule Uchima or Minami Saori her Screen name (Real Name: Akemi Uchima, Filipino Name: Cynthia) born in Okinawa, Japan in July 2, 1954. ...

Notable Japanese Descendants

• José Rizal
• Ferdinand Marcos
• Imee Marcos

José Rizal portrait from a 1902 Painting by Fabian Dela Rosa José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), the Pride of the Malay Race and The Great Malayan, is the national hero of the Philippines. ... Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (September 11, 1917–September 28, 1989) was the tenth President of the Philippines, serving from 1965 to 1986. ... Imee Marcos-Manotoc Imee Marcos-Manotoc aka Maria Imelda Romualdez Marcos-Manotoc (born November 12, 1955) is the eldest daughter of Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, the former President of the Philippines (1965 - 1986) and former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos. ...

See also

• Japayuki Filipina Entertainers

External Links

• Japanese/Filipino Mestizos in Japan
• Center for Japanese/Filipino Families
• Yolanda Tasico, the Filipino Enka singer
• Filipino Japayuki
• Japanese in pre-war Baguio