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〕 |popplace = TokyoKobe |langs = JapaneseEnglish Indian languages: GujaratiHindiKannadaPunjabiTamilOther languages of India〔; she lists the religions and languages in alphabetical order therein〕 |rels=ChristianityHinduismIslamJainismSikhism〔 }} Indians in Japan consist of migrants from India to Japan and their descendants. , there were 22,335 Indian nationals living in Japan.〔 Roughly 60% consist of expatriate IT professionals and their families. ==Migration history== According to the ''Nihon Shoki'', in 654 two men and two women of the Tushara Kingdom, along with one woman from Sravasti, were driven by a storm to take refuge at the former Hyūga Province in southern Kyushu. They remained for several years before setting off for home. The history of modern Indian settlement in Japan goes back more than a century. As early as 1873, a few Indian businessmen and their families, primarily Parsis and Sindhis, had settled Yokohama as well as Okinawa. In 1891, Tata, then a small trading firm, established a branch in Kobe. By 1901, Japanese government statistics recorded 30 people from British India living in Japan. Local statistics of the Hyōgo Prefecture government showed 59 Indians living in the prefecture in 1905, among whom all but one were men. After the destruction wreaked on Yokohama in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, the Indian traders there also migrated to Kobe; from then on, Kobe became the center of gravity of Japan's Indian community. By 1939, on the eve of World War II, the number of Indians in Hyōgo Prefecture had reached 632. However, due to British sanctions against Japan and the 1941 halt of shipping between Japan and their homeland, many closed their shops and left; by 1942, there were only 114 remaining. Three years after the Partition of India, their numbers had recovered somewhat to 255; there were also four Pakistanis. Prior to 1990, the Indian community in Japan remained centred on the Kobe area. However, after 1990, the numbers in Tokyo began to show a sharp increase.〔 Migrants who arrived in the 1990s included industrial trainees sent by Japanese car manufacturers which had set up factories in India. IT professionals and their families also came to Tokyo, settling primarily in Setagaya and Minato wards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indians in Japan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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