The area was one of the primary communities in the Hood River Valley farmed by Nikkei—Japanese migrants and their descendants.
The Asociación Estadio La Unión was founded 1982 by the nikkei community of Peru.
However, Kakegawa has a noticeable Nikkei (particularly, South American) population and it is more common to find signs written in Portuguese than in English.
Rena Hayami is introduced as a Japanese ambulance driver living in a nondescript Western country.
Immigrants from many nationalities have settled in São Caetano but the most significant groups are Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and Japanese.
In early years the factory had a labor shortage, leading to a local community of Nikkei—Japanese migrants and their descendants.
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Junko Sakai, author of Japanese Bankers in the City of London: Language, Culture and Identity in the Japanese Diaspora, stated that there is no particular location for the Japanese community in London, but that the families of Japanese "company men" have a tendency of living in North London and West London.