Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Japanese diaspora and its individual members known as nikkei (日系) are Japanese emigrants from Japan and their descendants that reside in a foreign country. Emigration from Japan first happened and was recorded as early as the 12th century to the Philippines but did not become a mass phenomenon until the Meiji Era when Japanese began to go to the Philippines North America and beginning in 1897 with 35 emigrants to Mexico; and later to Peru beginning in 1899 with 790 emigrants.
