Japanese people in China are

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

expatriates and emigrants and their descendants residing in

Greater China Greater China is an informal geographical area that shares commercial and cultural ties with the Han Chinese people. The notion of "Greater China" refers to the area that usually encompasses Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan in East ...

. In October 2018, there were 171,763 Japanese nationals living in

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

(including the Special Administrative Regions of

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

and

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

), and 24,280 Japanese nationals living in

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeas ...

(Taiwan).

History

From 630 to 894 AD, Japan sent nineteen diplomatic missions to China started by Emperor Jomei, during this time, many Japanese doctors studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as many artists learned of Chinese art techniques that would be brought to Japan. It is known that a third of the Japanese sent to China during missions did not return home

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an Zhou dynasty (690–705), interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dyn ...

China received 11 Japanese dancers as tribute from

Balhae Balhae ( ko, 발해, zh, c=渤海, p=Bóhǎi, russian: Бохай, translit=Bokhay, ), also rendered as Bohai, was a multi-ethnic kingdom whose land extends to what is today Northeast China, the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far East. It ...

in year 777.

Second Sino-Japanese War

During the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific T ...

, the

Japanese government The Government of Japan consists of legislative, executive and judiciary branches and is based on popular sovereignty. The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan, adopted in 1947. It is a unitary state, ...

introduced a plan to settle 5 million Japanese in

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 after the Japanese ...

. However, following the end of the war, approximately 2,800

Japanese orphans in China Japanese orphans in China consist primarily of children left behind by Japanese families following the Japanese repatriation from Huludao in the aftermath of World War II. According to Chinese government figures, roughly 4,000 Japanese childre ...

were left behind by families repatriating back to Japan. The majority of Japanese left behind in China were women, and these Japanese women mostly married Chinese men and became known as . Because they had children fathered by Chinese men, the Japanese women were not allowed to bring their children back with them to Japan so most of them stayed, as the Japanese law only allowed children fathered by Japanese men to become Japanese citizens.

21st century

In 2000s, more

were coming to

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...

due to its opening up and economic reforms, and Japanese nationals living in China increased roughly three times from 46,000 to 140,134 in proportion to the growth in trade volume between the two countries. The 2010 Census of the People's Republic of China recorded 66,159 foreign nationals from Japan residing in

Mainland China "Mainland China" is a geopolitical term defined as the territory governed by the China, People's Republic of China (including islands like Hainan or Chongming Island, Chongming), excluding dependent territories of the PRC, and other territorie ...

(figure excluding Hong Kong and Macau), representing nearly half of the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry figure. The number of Japanese emigrants to China and their descendants are unknown.Kyung Lah, 12 November 2010
Twin Tale: Rising China, Japan's setting sun
CNN However, the peak was 2012 and recently decreasing. In 2018, the permanent resident ratio is only 2.7%. As of October 2018, the number of Japanese nationals living in China is 140,134 (excluding 25,705 in

and 4,200 in

) according to a report by the Japanese

Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The enti ...

, the third largest group of

Japanese people The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は，旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来，現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島（南西諸島）に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Ja ...

outside Japan after the

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and

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four Direct-administered municipalities of China, direct-administered municipalities of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the ...

has the largest concentration of Japanese nationals in Greater China. As of October 2018, 40,747 Japanese nationals are living in Shanghai. The second-largest concentrated city is

and the third is

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

Education

Japanese School of Beijing (20201206164456)

The following are approved by the

Japanese Ministry of Education The , also known as MEXT or Monka-shō, is one of the eleven Ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the Government of Japan. Its goal is to improve the development of Japan in relation with the international community ...

(MEXT):

* Full-time

nihonjin gakko The are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago."人類学上は，旧石器時代あるいは縄文時代以来，現在の北海道〜沖縄諸島（南西諸島）に住んだ集団を祖先にもつ人々。" () Japa ...

:アジアの日本人学校一覧（平成26年4月15日現在）
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. Retrieved on 12 January 2017. ** Beijing: Japanese School of Beijing ** Guangdong *** Guangzhou Japanese School *** Shenzhen Japanese School ** Jiangsu: Suzhou Japanese School ** Liaoning: Dalian Japanese School ** Shandong:

Qingdao Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...

Japanese School (青島日本人学校) ** Shanghai:

Shanghai Japanese School The Shanghai Japanese School (SJS) is a Japanese international school serving primary and junior high school levels in Shanghai. It has two campuses, one in Hongqiao and one in Pudong. The school's teachers are Japanese citizens.

** Tianjin:

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...

Japanese School (天津日本人学校) ** Zhejiang:

Hangzhou Hangzhou ( or , ; , , Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), also Chinese postal romanization, romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the prov ...

Japanese School (杭州日本人学校) * Supplementary Japanese language education programs (hoshu jugyo ko or hoshuko):アジアの補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）
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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology The , also known as MEXT or Monka-shō, is one of the eleven Ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the Government of Japan. Its goal is to improve the development of Japan in relation with the international community ...

. Retrieved on 13 February 2015. ** Guangdong: ***

Shenzhen Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern provi ...

Saturday School (深圳(ｼﾝｾﾝ)補習授業校 ''Shinsen Hoshū Jugyō Kō'', formerly SHENZHEN日本人補習校) – Office on the 8th floor of the Jinsanjiao Building (金三角大厦/金三角大廈) in Baishizhou, Nanshan District.日本人学校・補習授業校一覧
" Consulate-General of Japan in Guangzhou (在広州日本国総領事館/日本国驻广州总领事馆). Retrieved on 21 December 2017. "深セン日本人補習校 518052　広東省深圳市南山区白石洲金三角大廈８階" and "広東省珠海市珠海日本人補習校 519000 広東省珠海市吉大石花西路１６１号（珠海藤倉電装有限公司内）" Previously based in the Ming Wah International Convention Centre (明华国际会议中心) in

Shekou Shekou () is an area at the southern tip of Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. It faces Yuen Long, Hong Kong across the Shenzhen Bay. It has been designated as a Free Trade Zone by the government, alongside Qianhai, Hen ...

.アジアの補習授業校一覧
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MEXT The , also known as MEXT or Monka-shō, is one of the eleven Ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the Government of Japan. Its goal is to improve the development of Japan in relation with the international communi ...

. 2 January 2003. Retrieved on 7 April 2015. "青島青島市彰化路銀都花園T5-2" and "蘇州蘇州日本人補習授業校（連絡先）中華人民共和国江蘇省蘇州市新区獅山路１６号金獅大厦１０Ｄ住友銀行蘇州支店（所在地）中華人民共和国江蘇省蘇州市新区金山路１１８号蘇州外国語学校内" and "カルカタ休校中" and "中華人民共和国広東省SHENZHEN市蛇口工業區亀山路８號「明華国際会議中心」" ***

Zhuhai Zhuhai (, ; Yale: ''Jyūhói''), also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China, on the southeastern edge of P ...

Japanese Saturday School (珠海日本人補習校) – classes at QSI International School of Zhuhaiアジアの補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）
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. Retrieved on 13 February 2015. "チェンナイ Japanese School Educational Trust of Chennai Inside American International School Chennai, 100 Feet Road, Taramani, Chennai, 600113, INDIA" "南京 Nanjing Japanese Saturday School 中華人民共和国南京市栖霞区仙林大学城　学衝路8号　南京国際学校内" and "珠海広東省珠海市拱北九州大道西2001号　恒信工業区「QSI International School of Zhuhai」内" ** Jiangsu: ***

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and t ...

Japanese Saturday School (南京補習授業校 ''Nankin Hoshū Jugyō Kō'') –

Nanjing International School Nanjing International School is a non-profit International school in Xian Lin College and University Town (), Qixia District, Nanjing, enrolling children age 3 to 18, Pre Kindergarten to Grade 12. There are around 620 students from over 30 count ...

Qixia District Qixia District () is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, China, straddling both sides of the Yangtze River. It has an area of 80 km2 and a population of 400,000. Natural and historical sites Qixia Mountain is i ...

, Nanjing ***

Wuxi Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city a ...

Japanese Saturday School (無錫(ﾑｼｬｸ)補習授業校 ''Mujaku Hoshū Jugyō Kō'') – Wuxi New Area – Established 14 April 2006 ** Liaoning:

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu name Mukden, is a major Chinese sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Liaoning province. Located in central-north Liaoning, it is the provi ...

Saturday School (瀋陽補習授業校 ''Shenyan Hoshū Jugyō Kō'') – It was established in April 2006 and is in

Shenhe District The Shenhe District () is one of ten districts of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Shenhe serves as the central district of Shenyang and currently hosts the seat of the City Government. It borders the districts of Dad ...

** Zhejiang:

Ningbo Ningbo (; Ningbonese: ''gnin² poq⁷'' , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises 6 urban districts, 2 sate ...

Saturday School (寧波(ﾆﾝﾎﾞｰ)補習授業校 ''Ninbō Hoshū Jugyō Kō'') * Former hoshuko: **Jiangsu:

Suzhou Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trad ...

– Held at the

Suzhou Foreign Language School Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade ...

(苏州外国语学校) in

Suzhou New District The Suzhou New District () is one of the specially designated regions for technological and industrial development in China. The district covers an area of and is located west of Suzhou, in the Jiangsu province. The district is managed by the Ne ...

**Shandong:

Hong Kong Japanese School The Hong Kong Japanese School and Japanese International School (HKJS&JIS) is a Japanese international school in Hong Kong. It consists of a Japanese section and international section. The Hong Kong Japanese School Limited operates the school s ...

(nihonjin gakko) ** Hong Kong Japanese Supplementary School (HKJSS; 香港日本人補習授業校 ''Honkon Nihonjin Hoshū Jugyō Kō'')

(

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

) *

Kaohsiung Japanese School The Kaohsiung Japanese School is a Japanese international school on the campus of Kaohsiung Municipal Lingya District Jhong-Jheng Elementary School ( 高雄市苓雅區中正國民小學) in Lingya District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan in the Republic of C ...

Taichung Japanese School Taichung Japanese School is a Japanese international school in Daya District, Taichung, Taiwan in the Republic of China. Unlike the enrollments of the Japanese schools in Taipei and Kaohsiung, the enrollment of the Taichung Japanese School incre ...

Taipei Japanese School Taipei Japanese School (TJS) is a Japanese international school located in Shilin District, Taipei. TJS was established in 1947 and mainly serves the children (up to junior high school) of Japanese expatriates in Taiwan. Traditionally, TJS stu ...

Unrecognized by MEXT: *

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese provin ...

Hoshuko (成都日本語補習校 ''Chentū Nihongo Hoshūkō'') –

Wuhou District Wuhou District () is one of 12 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, Southwest China. It contains the historic site, Wuhou Temple and Jinli Street. The district is bordered by Jinjiang Distric ...

, Chengdu, established on 12 February 2012学校施設
" Chengdu Hoshuko. Retrieved on 1 April 2015.

Notable people

; Chinese people of Japanese descent * Huisheng – princess of the Qing ruling family * Jiang Ying – renowned opera singer and music educator *

Chiang Wei-kuo Chiang Wei-kuo (; 6 October 1916 – 22 September 1997), also known as Wego Chiang, was the adopted son of Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek, the adoptive brother of President Chiang Ching-kuo, a retired Army general, and an important f ...

(Originally from

Tokyo, Japan Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...

) *

Koxinga Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), better known internationally as Koxinga (), was a Ming loyalist general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern ...

– Ming Dynasty general *

Hiro Saga was a Japanese noblewoman and memoir writer. She was the daughter of Marquis Saneto Saga and a distant relative of Emperor Shōwa. She was married in 1937 to Pujie, the younger brother of Puyi, the last monarch of the Qing dynasty of China betw ...

– wife of Prince Pujie, brother of the Emperor

Puyi Aisin-Gioro Puyi (; 7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967), courtesy name Yaozhi (曜之), was the last emperor of China as the eleventh and final Qing dynasty monarch. He became emperor at the age of two in 1908, but was forced to abdicate on 1 ...

(Originally from

) *

Zheng Pingru Zheng Pingru (1918 – February 1940) was a Chinese socialite and spy who gathered intelligence on the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun, the sec ...

– socialite and spy who gathered intelligence on the

Imperial Japanese Army The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emper ...

; Japanese expatriates in China * – Japanese actor in China (Originally from

Edogawa-ku is a special ward located in Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. It takes its name from the Edo River that runs from north to south along the eastern edge of the ward. In English, it uses the name Edogawa City. The easternmost of the wards, it shares ...

) * Ryo Takeuchi - film director (Originally from

Abiko, Chiba 260px, Abiko City Hall is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 131,714 in 59,895 households and a population density of 3000 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Abiko is loc ...

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 n ...

) * Chikada Rikimaru, Santa Uno and Mika Hashizume - members of

INTO1 Into1 (''pronounced as Into One'') is a multi-national Chinese boy group, formed through the 2021 reality show '' Produce Camp 2021'' (Chuang 2021) on Tencent Video. The group consists of 11 members: Liu Yu, Santa, Rikimaru, Mika, Nine, Lin ...

(Chikada Rikimaru: Originally from Itami, Hyogo,

/Santa Uno: Originally from

Nagoya, Aichi is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...

/Mika Hashizume:

Japanese American 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 ...

)

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