The Ōbeikei Islanders (欧米系島民, ''Ōbeikeitōmin'' lit. ''
Westerner Islanders'') are a
Euronesian
, population= 258,600Bridging 1990 and 2000 census race data: Fractional assignment of multiracial populations.
, popplace=United States 125,628
French Polynesia 45,000
New Caledonia 25,000
Samoa 18,000
Solomon Islands 18,000
Fiji 16,000
...
ethnic group native to the
Ogasawara Islands
The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...
. They are culturally and genetically distinct from other Japanese ethnic groups such as the
Yamato
was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan.
Yamato is also the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan.
Japanese his ...
,
Ainu
Ainu or Aynu may refer to:
*Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far East
*Ainu languages, a family of languages
**Ainu language of Hokkaido
**Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands
**Sakhalin Ainu la ...
, and
Ryukyuans
The Ryukyuan people ( ryu, 琉球民族 (るーちゅーみんずく), Ruuchuu minzuku or ryu, どぅーちゅーみんずく, Duuchuu minzuku, label=none, ja, 琉球民族/りゅうきゅうみんぞく, Ryūkyū minzoku, also Lewchewan or L ...
as they are the modern-day descendants of a multitude of racial and ethnic groups including the
Europeans
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,
White Americans
White Americans are Americans who identify as and are perceived to be white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people in the United States. As of the 2020 Census, 61.6%, or 204,277,273 people, were white alone. This represented ...
,
Polynesians
Polynesians form an ethnolinguistic group of closely related people who are native to Polynesia (islands in the Polynesian Triangle), an expansive region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They trace their early prehistoric origins to Island Sou ...
, and
Kanaks who settled
Hahajima and
Chichijima in the 18th century.
History
The first documented instance of human occupation of the
Ogasawara Islands
The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...
took place in 1830, when Matteo Mazzaro, a British citizen from Ragusa, Austria-Hungary (now
Dubrovnik
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, Croatia), who would serve as governor, settled the island of
Chichijima. He was accompanied by
Nathaniel Savory
Nathaniel Savory (1794 - 1874) was one of the first American colonists who is said to have settled on the Ogasawara Islands. He eventually became governor, and played an active role in government before and during the colonization by Japan.
Life ...
, a
White American
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from
, John Millencamp, an American, Henry Webb and Charles Robinson, both
Englishmen
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, Joaquim Gonsales, a
Portuguese man, and approximately twenty
Native Hawaiians
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Hawaii ...
, whose personal names were not recorded. Though Savory was American, his expedition had been commissioned by British forces, making it a British settlement.
Surnames
* Savory (rendered as Sebori in Japanese)
* Robinson
* Washington
* Gilley
* Gonzalez
See also
*
Americans in Japan
*
Indigenous peoples of Asia
*
Japanese Americans
are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asi ...
References
{{Ethnic groups in Japan, state=expanded
Ethnic groups in Japan
Bonin Islands
Indigenous peoples of East Asia