Japan’s Strategic Groundwork for Economic Diplomacy toward Latin America: Why Did Japan Pursue a Migration Policy toward Latin America in the 1950s?

Key Points

• To explore how Japan's migration policy towards Latin America in the 1950s became a key tool for economic diplomacy.
• Application of Push-Pull-Mooring theory
• Analysis of migration policies and economic factors
• Examination of Japan-Latin America relations
• Identified push factors as Japan's post-war population surplus and need for new economic spaces.
• Recognized pull factors including resource demand and trust in Japanese communities in Latin America.
• Showed policy outcomes as varied, with unique developments in Paraguay and Brazil.

Abstract