Overseas Japanese Overseas Japanese The term Ethnic Japanese, or Nikkei (日系), usually refers to people who live outside Japan, who either emigrated from Japan or are descendants of a person who emigrated from Japan. The largest such communities are in the United States (mainly California and Hawaii), Brazil, and China (mainly Shanghai), although there are also sizable communities in Peru, Mexico, Russia, Australia (mainly Queensland and Sydney) as well as other countries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ethnic Japanese"
Japanese Americans are a group of people who trace their ancestry to Japan or Okinawa and are residents and/or citizens of the United States. Japan is a western Pacific Ocean multi-archipelagic nation east of the China in Asia. Japanese Americans are a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is further a subgroup of Asian Americans. Okinawa, a former independent nation, was annexed by Japan in the late nineteenth century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese American"
The Japanese Filipinos are ethnic Japanese born in the Philippines. The first group includes descendants of the Japanese traders/merchants who settled there in pre-Spanish territorial period and the second group includes descendants of Japanese Catholics who fled from the religious persecution imposed by the shoguns and settled during colonial period. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese Filipino"
A Japanese-Brazilian is an ethnically Japanese person born in Brazil. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese-Brazilian"
Nikkei can refer to: ...more on Wikipedia about "Nikkei"
Otokichi ( Japanese 山本音吉, Yamamoto Otokichi, later known as John Matthew Ottoson; 1818–January 1867) was a Japanese castaway during Japan's period of seclusion ( sakoku). First shipwrecked off the Japanese coast, his ship was carried to the Pacific coast of America. After being rescued there, he then circled the world, between 1832 and 1837, as he tried to return to Japan. His excursion played a remarkable role in bridging the cultural gap between his country and the rest of the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Otokichi"
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