There is a small community of Japanese expatriates in Jamaica and their descendants (known as Japanese Jamaicans), consisting mostly of corporate employees and their families, along with immigrants and Jamaican-born citizens of

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 ...

ancestry. , 158 Japanese lived in the country, according to the statistics of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Japan: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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History

According to the Jamaican Embassy in Tokyo website, more than 100,000 Japanese tourists have visited Jamaica in the last 15 years.
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Culture

Mighty Crown was inspired by the legendary sound systems like

Killamanjaro Founded in the summer of 1969, Killamanjaro is a Jamaican sound system best known for their clashes and large amount of classic reggae dubplates. It is owned by Noel "Papa Jaro" Harper and named after Mount Kilimanjaro. The name was changed ...

and Saxon. They were the first non-Jamaican sound system to win the Irish and Chin world clash in 1999.

Notable people

Musashi Suzuki is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for Gamba Osaka in the J1 League. He is mainly deployed as a forward. Club career J.League His mother, Mariko, is Japanese and his father, Robert, is Jamaican. He was born in Jamaica but grew up ...

- Jamaican-born Japanese footballer *

Asuka Cambridge is a Jamaican-born Japanese track and field Sprint (running), sprinter who competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. His personal best of 10.03 in the 100m gives him Japan's 6th fastest time. He is a two-time East Asian Games gold medallist and ...

- Japanese sprinter *

References

External links

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Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...