Japanese Colombian

Infobox Ethnic group
group=Japanese Colombian
"Japonés Colombiano"
flagicon|Japanflagicon|Colombia
poptime=
popplace=Bogotá, Barranquilla, Santiago de Cali
langs=Colombian Spanish, Japanese
rels=Christianity, Mahayana Buddhism, Shinto
related=Japanese people, Japanese Americans, Japanese Canadians, Japanese Peruvians, Japanese Paraguayans, Japanese Brazilians

Japanese Colombian (Spanish: "Japonés Colombiano", Japanese: "Nikkei Koronbiajin") is a Colombian of Japanese ancestry.

History

The first Japanese settlers moved to Colombia in 1927 to work as farmers. Most of them stayed there. When World War II 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 here.

Prominent Japanese Colombians