Russians in Japan
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The first recorded landing of Russians in Japan (Japanese: 在日ロシア人, Zai-Nichi Roshia-jin; Russian: Русские в Японии, romanized: Russkije v Japonii) was in 1739 in Kamogawa, Chiba during the times of Japanese seclusion of the Edo period, not counting landings in Hokkaidō, which was not under Japanese administration at these times.
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10,681 (in December, 2022)[1][2]
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Russian • Japanese |
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Japanese people are partly descended from populations originating in the Russian Far East.[3]