在日スリランカ人 Zainichi Surirankajin | |
|---|---|
| Total population | |
| 56,179 (in June, 2024)[1][2] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Tokyo, Ibaraki, Chiba, Funabashi, Kawasaki, Sagamihara, Saitama, Yokohama | |
| Languages | |
| Sinhala, Tamil, English, Japanese | |
| Religion | |
| Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity |
Sri Lankans in Japan consist of Sri Lankan migrants that come to Japan, as well as their descendants, and have been in Japan since ancient times. In June 2024, there were 56,179 Sri Lankans living in Japan. They are the fourth largest nationality group from South Asia after Myanmar, Nepalis and Indians.[1][2]
Traditional Japanese culture shares a lot of similarities with traditional Indian and Sri Lankan culture, including music (such as instruments and melodic structure), fashion and cuisine, among others.[3][4] Much of this has been dissimenated from India and Sri Lanka since ancient times via the Sinosphere and South East Asia, including through Austronesians, trade between India, Sri Lanka and East Asia, expansion of Buddhism, the expansion of Tamil empires into South East Asia, European colonialism, among others.
Japan has converserly had a moderate impact on Sri Lankan culture, including directly through exports, religion and pop culture, and indirectly through the Sinosphere (such as Kpop) and South East Asia. Japan is a major geopolitical partner of Sri Lanka, along with other major partners China, India and the United States.[5] Sri Lanka has sometimes been historically grouped with South East Asian countries due to the predominance of sea-based travel in ancient and pre-modern history and the cultural exchange that came with it, along with notable modern ties between Sri Lanka and South East Asia.[6]
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- ^ a b "令和６年６月末現在における在留外国人数について".
- ^ Saideep Rathnam, Shri Anupam Joshi (13 November 2020). "Identifying our shared Identities: Astonishing cultural similarities between India and Japan". India Japan Study Centre.
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- ^ "Sri Lanka and great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific: a Belt and Road failure?". Elcano Royal Institute. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ "Sri Lanka in ASEAN: The role of the concept 'Southeast Asia' in Sri Lanka's bid for membership". March 2017. Archived from the original on 2024-05-29.
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