Shutting down the empire meant that Japanese settlers and officials had leave.
Japanese settlers were encouraged through the construction of schools, libraries, hospitals and public utilities.
After its opening, housing for Japanese settlers was rapidly developed in order to establish self-government.
Many Japanese settlers committed mass suicide as the Soviet army approached.
Early Japanese settlers taught their children to speak in the Japanese language.
The remaining Japanese settlers who are living in urban areas number 2,321.
The number of Japanese settlers in Chile never went above 900 between 1910 and 1940.
In recent decades, many Japanese settlers arrived especially as businessmen to profit in the country.
The first large group of Japanese settlers moved to Colombia in 1927 to work as farmers.
Area residents, including descendants of the Japanese settlers, were highly resistant to any name change.