Japanese Colombian
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Japanese Colombian is a Colombia
n of Japanese ancestry
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began, most were discriminated and among them were imprisoned to the United States. After the war ended, Japanese refugees were warmly invited. In the recent decades, many Japanese settlers lived after they were called to populate unpopulated areas of the nation, while others lived as businessmen to invest there.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n of Japanese ancestry
Ethnic Japanese
Ethnic Japanese may mean:* Japanese people, when referring to people of Japanese descent** May also be used as a term to refer to the Yamato people as opposed to the minority peoples of Japan: the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Burakumin and immigrant groups such as the Han Chinese and Koreans.* Japanese...
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History
The first Japanese settlers moved to Colombia in 1927 to work as farmers. Most of them stayed there. When World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
began, most were discriminated and among them were imprisoned to the United States. After the war ended, Japanese refugees were warmly invited. In the recent decades, many Japanese settlers lived after they were called to populate unpopulated areas of the nation, while others lived as businessmen to invest there.