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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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| Weight | 57.385 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a radiant sun at center above the superimposed outline maps of Peru and Japan, symbolizing the bilateral relationship between the two nations. The national flags of Peru and Japan are depicted intertwined at the base of the central design. A bilingual commemorative legend in both Spanish and Japanese encircles the design, referencing the centennial of Japanese immigration to Peru. The commemorative dates '1899–1999' are prominently inscribed, marking the hundred-year period being celebrated. The composition blends Latin and Katakana scripts in a balanced arrangement around the central motif. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Japanese immigration to Peru, 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 plantations on the coast, under conditions that bore little resemblance to what the migration brokers had promised. The Peruvian-Japanese community that developed from that landing became, over the following century, one of the most economically and politically significant immigrant populations in Latin America — culminating, controversially, in Alberto Fujimori's presidency just nine years before this coin was struck.