The Embassy of Japan in Lima is the official
diplomatic mission
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of
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
to the
Republic of Peru
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.
The current
Japanese ambassador to Peru is Kazuyuki Katayama.
History
Peru and
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
first established
relations
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in 1873, with Peru being the first Latin American country to establish diplomatic relations with the East Asian state.
20th century
Furuya Incident
As a result of the large-scale Japanese immigration to Peru, the Peruvian government had to implement a limit to the number of immigrants. However, this was not implemented. As a result, a monopoly among the 22,560 Japanese nationals, accounting for 46.7% of
all foreigners in the country, began to develop in contrast to Peruvian businesses, leading to tension between Peruvians and the Japanese, as the former started to develop a