The Embassy of Japan in Lima is the official
diplomatic mission
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of
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
to the
Republic of Peru
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.
The current
Japanese ambassador to Peru is Kazuyuki Katayama.
History
Peru and
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
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.
The Imperial Legation that had been established in Lima was closed in 1942 due to the rupture of relations between both countries as a result of
World War II
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. It was located in the
Quinta Heeren of
Barrios Altos
Lima is a district of Lima Province in Peru. Lima district is the oldest in Lima Province and as such, vestiges of the city's colonial era remain today in the historic centre of Lima, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 and ...
.
After the end of the war, the Japanese Legation in Peru was reopened on June 8, 1952, becoming the Japanese Consulate in Lima on December 26 of the same year, and finally becoming the Japanese Embassy in Lima.
On November 19, 2017, the embassy moved from its location of San Felipe 356 to the ''SkyTower757'' building. The embassy was remodeled during the late 2010s.
Incidents
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