, Japanese diplomat who lived 17 years in China. From 630 to 894 AD, Japan sent nineteen diplomatic missions to China started by Emperor
Jomei. During this time, many Japanese doctors studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as many artists learning Chinese art techniques that would be brought to Japan. It is known that a third of the Japanese sent to China during missions did not return home.
Tang dynasty China received 11 Japanese dancers as tribute from
Balhae in year 777.
Second Sino-Japanese War During the
Second Sino-Japanese War, the
Japanese government introduced a plan to settle 5 million Japanese in
Manchukuo. However, following the end of the war, approximately 2,800
Japanese orphans in China were left behind by families repatriating to Japan. The majority of Japanese left behind in China were women, and these Japanese women mostly married Chinese men and became known as . Because they had children fathered by Chinese men, the Japanese women were not allowed to bring their children back with them to Japan so most of them stayed, as the Japanese law only allowed children fathered by Japanese men to become Japanese citizens.
21st century In 2000s, more
Japanese were coming to
China due to its opening up and economic reforms, and Japanese nationals living in China increased roughly three times from 46,000 to 140,134 in proportion to the growth in trade volume between the two countries. The
2010 Census of the People's Republic of China recorded 66,159 foreign nationals from Japan residing in
Mainland China (figure excluding Hong Kong and Macau), representing nearly half of the Japanese Foreign Affairs Ministry figure. The number of Japanese emigrants to China and their descendants are unknown. However, the peak was 2012 and recently decreasing.
Shanghai has the largest concentration of Japanese nationals in Greater China. As of October 2018, 40,747 Japanese nationals are living in Shanghai. The second-largest concentrated city is
Hong Kong and the third is
Taipei. ==Education==