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1 Nuevo Sol Japanese Immigration
| Issuer | Banco Central de Reserva del Perú |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Currency | Nuevo sol (1991-2015) / Sol (2016-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A radiant sun is depicted at the upper center, its rays extending outward in a stylized design. Below the sun, two outline maps are shown side by side — the map of Japan on the left and the map of Peru on the right — symbolizing the bond between the two nations. A bilingual commemorative legend encircles the design, appearing in both Latin script and Japanese katakana, along with the centennial date range 1899–1999 and the numeral 100. |
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Peru issued this coin in 1999 to mark the centennial of organized Japanese immigration, which began with the arrival of 790 contract laborers aboard the Sakura Maru on April 3, 1899. Those first immigrants were bound primarily for sugar and cotton haciendas on the coast, working under conditions that bore little resemblance to what the labor recruiters had described. Within a generation, the community had moved heavily into urban commerce and agriculture on their own terms.
Peru's Nikkei population would later be subject to forced deportation to U.S. internment camps during World War II — a largely forgotten episode in which Lima cooperated with Washington at considerable cost to its own citizens.