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{{Short description|Latin Americans of Asian descent}}
{{About|2=the [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]] population of Asian descent living in or native to the United States|3=Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans|4=the population in Asia of Latin American descent|5=Latin American Asian}}
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Asian Latin Americans
| native_name      = Asiáticolatinoamericanos
| native_name_lang = 
| image            = 
| caption          = 
| population       = {{circa|7.000.000}} approximately
| popplace         = 
| region1          = {{flagcountry|Brazil}}
| pop1             = [[Asian Brazilians|3.000.000]] (self-identified East Asian ancestry)
| ref1             = <ref name="raca2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/caracteristicas_da_populacao/tabelas_pdf/tab3.pdf |title=Caracteristicas da População e dos Domicílios do Censo Demográfico 2010 – Cor ou raça |access-date=7 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217041601/http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/censo2010/caracteristicas_da_populacao/tabelas_pdf/tab3.pdf |archive-date=17 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080115i1.html=search.japantimes.co.jp|title=Japan, Brazil mark a century of settlement, family ties{{pipe}} The Japan Times Online|accessdate=9 February 2024}}</ref>
| region2         = {{flagcountry|Peru}}
| pop2            = [[Asian Peruvians|1,461,638]] estimated<ref name="ocac.gov.tw">{{cite web|url=http://www.ocac.gov.tw/english/public/public.asp?selno%3D1163%26no%3D1163%26level%3DB|title=The Ranking of Ethnic Chinese Population|publisher=Overseas Community Affairs Council, Republic of China (Taiwan)|access-date=26 July 2010|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123193905/http://www.ocac.gov.tw/english/public/public.asp?selno=1163&no=1163&level=B|archive-date=23 November 2013}}</ref><ref name="2017 Census"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/peru/data.html|title = Japan-Peru Relations (Basic Data)}}</ref> 36,841 self-reported<ref name="2017 Census">{{cite web|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1539/libro.pdf|title=Perú: Perfil Sociodemográfico |page = 216 |website = Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática}}</ref>
| region3          = {{flagcountry|Mexico}}
| pop3             = [[Asian Mexicans|1,000,000]] 
| region4          = {{flagcountry|Venezuela}}
| pop4             = 500,000
| region5          = {{flagcountry|Argentina}}
| pop5             = [[Asian Argentines|344,130]]
| region6          = {{flagcountry|Colombia}}
| pop6             = [[Asian Colombians|213,910]]
| region7          = {{flagcountry|Panama}}
| pop7             = 140,000
| region8          = {{flagcountry|Cuba}}
| pop8             = 114,240
| ref8             = <ref>CIA World Factbook</ref>
| region9          = {{flagcountry|Dominican Republic}}
| pop9             = 52,000
| region10         = {{flagcountry|Paraguay}}
| pop10            = 51,000
| region11         = {{flagcountry|Guatemala}}
| pop11            = 27,000
| region12         = {{flagcountry|Chile}}
| pop12            = 25,000
| region13         = {{flagcountry|Ecuador}}
| pop13            = 17,080
| region14         = {{flagcountry|Bolivia}}
| pop14            = 15,000
| region15         = {{flagcountry|Nicaragua}}
| pop15            = 14,000<ref name="Han Chinese, Mandarin in Nicaragua">{{Cite web|url=https://www.joshuaproject.net/people_groups/12051/NU|title = Han Chinese, Mandarin in Nicaragua}}</ref>
| region16         = {{flagcountry|Costa Rica}}
| pop16            = 9,170<ref name="archivo.crhoy.com">{{Cite web|url=https://archivo.crhoy.com/costa-rica-es-multirracial-ultimo-censo-lo-pone-en-evidencia/nacionales/|title=Costa Rica es multirracial, último censo lo pone en evidencia {{pipe}} Crhoy.com|website=CRHoy.com {{pipe}} Periodico Digital {{pipe}} Costa Rica Noticias 24/7}}</ref>
| region17         = {{flagcountry|Puerto Rico}}
| pop17            = 6,390
| region18         = {{flagcountry|Uruguay}}
| pop18            = 4,000
| region19         = {{flagcountry|El Salvador}}
| pop19            = 3,271 (self-reported; 20,000 estimated)
| region20         = {{flagcountry|Honduras}}
| pop20            = 2,609<ref name="elheraldo.hn">{{Cite web|url=https://www.elheraldo.hn/honduras/29-mil-extranjeros-viven-el-sueno-hondureno-APEH575489|title=29 mil extranjeros viven el 'sueño hondureño'|website=www.elheraldo.hn}}</ref>
| langs            = '''European Languages''':<br />[[Spanish language|Spanish]]{{·}}[[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]{{·}}[[English language|English]]<br />
'''Asian Languages''':<br />[[Chinese language|Chinese]]{{·}}[[Japanese language|Japanese]]{{·}}[[Korean language|Korean]]{{·}}[[Filipino language|Filipino]]{{·}}[[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]{{·}}[[Thai language|Thai]]{{·}}[[Malay language|Malay]]{{·}}[[Arabic]]{{·}}[[Hindustani language|Hindustani]]{{·}}[[Tamil language|Tamil]]{{·}}[[Telugu language|Telugu]]{{·}}[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]{{·}}[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| rels             = [[Christianity]]{{·}}[[Buddhism]]{{·}}[[Taoism]]{{·}}[[Shinto]]ism{{·}}[[Islam]]{{·}}[[Zoroastrianism]]{{·}}[[Hinduism]]{{·}}[[Sikhism]]{{·}}[[Jainism]]
| related          = [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]], [[Hispanic]], [[Asian people|Asian]], [[Filipinos]], [[Spaniards]], [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], [[White Latin Americans|European Latin Americans]], [[Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans]], [[Latin American Asian]], [[Asian Caribbean]], [[Chinese Caribbean people]]
}}

'''Asian Latin Americans''' (sometimes ''[[Asian-Latinos]]'') are [[Latin Americans]] of [[Asian diaspora|Asian descent]]. Asian immigrants to Latin America have largely been from [[East Asia]] or [[West Asia]].<ref name="Lizcano"/> Historically, Asians in Latin America have a centuries-long history in the region, starting with [[Overseas Filipinos|Filipinos]] in the 16th century. The peak of Asian immigration occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries. There are currently more than four million Asian Latin Americans, nearly 1% of [[Latin America]]'s population. [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese]], [[Japanese people|Japanese]], and [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] are the largest Asian ancestries; other major ethnic groups include [[Overseas Filipinos|Filipinos]], [[Syrians]], [[Koreans]] and [[Indian people|Indians]], many of whom are [[Indo-Caribbean people|Indo-Caribbean]] and came from neighboring countries in the [[Caribbean]] and [[the Guianas]]. [[Brazil]] is home to the largest population of East Asian descent, estimated at 2.08 million.<ref name="raca2010"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080115i1.html=search.japantimes.co.jp|title=Japan, Brazil mark a century of settlement, family ties {{pipe}} The Japan Times Online<!-- Bot generated title -->|accessdate=9 February 2024}}</ref> The country is also home to a large percentage of West Asian descendants.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Petruccelli|first1=Jose Luis|last2=Saboia|first2=Ana Lucia|title=Caracteristicas Etnico-raciais da Populacao Classificacoes e identidades|url=https://biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/visualizacao/livros/liv63405.pdf|access-date=28 July 2021|website=[[IBGE]]|page=53|quote=descendentes e os asiáticos – japoneses, chineses, coreanos, libaneses, sírios, entre outros}}</ref> With as much as 5% of their population having some degree of Chinese ancestry, Peru and Mexico have the highest ratio of any country for East Asian descent.<ref name="ocac.gov.tw"/> Though the most recent official census, which relied on self-identification, gave a much lower percentage.<ref name="2017 Census"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alertacontraelracismo.pe/articulos/esa-sutil-mirada-sobre-estereotipos-prejuicios-y-racismo-hacia-la-poblacion-asiatico|title = Esa sutil mirada: Sobre estereotipos, prejuicios y racismo hacia la población asiático peruana. {{pipe}} Alerta contra el racismo}}</ref>

There has been notable emigration from these communities in recent decades, so that there are now hundreds of thousands of people of Asian Latin American origin in both [[Japan]] and the [[United States]].

==History==
[[File:Chinese_laborers_in_Peru.jpg|thumb|206x206px|left|Chinese immigrants working in the cotton crop (1890) in [[Chinese Peruvians|Peru]].]]
The first Asian Latin Americans were [[Overseas Filipinos|Filipinos]] who made their way to Latin America (primarily to [[Filipino Cubans|Cuba]] and [[Mexico]] and secondarily to [[Argentina]], [[Colombia]], [[Panama]] and [[Peru]]) in the 16th century, as slaves, crew members, and prisoners during the [[History of the Philippines (1521–1898)|Spanish colonial rule of the Philippines]] through the Viceroyalty of [[New Spain]], with its capital in Mexico City. For two and a half centuries (between 1565 and 1815) many Filipinos and Chinese sailed on the [[Manila galleon|Manila-Acapulco Galleons]], assisting in the [[Spanish Empire]]'s monopoly in trade. Some of these sailors never returned to the [[Philippines]] and many of their descendants can be found in small communities around [[Baja California]], [[Sonora]], [[Mexico City]], [[Lima|Peru]] and others, thus making Filipinos the oldest Asian ethnic group in Latin America.

While South Asians had been present in various forms in Latin America for centuries by the 1800s, it was in this century that the flow into the region spiked dramatically. This rapid influx of hundreds of thousands of mainly male South Asians was due to the need for indentured servants. This is largely tied to the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbeanhistory/slavery-negotiating-freedom.htm abolition of black slavery in the Caribbean colonies in 1834]. Without the promise of free labor and a hostile working class on their hands, the Dutch colonial authorities had to find a solution – cheap Asian labor.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A History of Modern Latin America|last=Meade|first=Teresa|author-link=Teresa Meade |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc.|year=2010|isbn=978-1-118-77248-5|location=West Sussex, UK|pages=141–142}}</ref>
[[File:Japanese immigrant family in Brazil c1930, Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa.png|left|thumb|248x248px|Japanese immigrant family in Brazil]]
Many of these immigrant populations became such fixtures in their adopted countries that they acquired names of their own. For example, the Chinese men who labored in agricultural work became known as "[[coolie]]s". While these imported Asian laborers were initially just replacement for agricultural slave labor, they gradually began to enter other sectors as the economy evolved. Before long, they had entered more urban work and the service sector. In certain areas, these populations assimilated into the minority populations, adding yet another definition to go on a [[casta]].

In some areas, these new populations caused conflict. In Northern Mexico, tensions became inevitable when the United States began to [[Chinese Exclusion Act#The "Driving Out" period|shut off Chinese immigration]] in the early 1880s. Many who were originally bound for the United States were re-routed to Mexico. The rapid increase in population and rise to middle/upper class standing generated strong resentment among existing residents. These tensions lead to riots. In the state of Sonora, the entire Chinese population was expelled in 1929.

Today, the overwhelming majority of Asian Latin Americans are either of East Asian (namely [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese]], [[Japanese diaspora|Japanese]] or [[Korean diaspora|Korean]]), or West Asian descent (mostly [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] or [[Syrians]]),<ref name="Lizcano">{{cite journal|last=Lizcano Fernández|first=Francisco|url=http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf|title=Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI|trans-title=Ethnic Composition of the Three Cultural Areas of the American Continent at the Beginning of the 21st Century|language=es|journal=Convergencia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales|publisher=Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México|location=Toluca, México|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626010236/http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf|archive-date=26 June 2013|pages=194–195|quote=En principio, se pueden distinguir dos grupos muy distintos al interior de esta etnia: el que procede de Asia occidental (sobre todo árabes cristianos llegados desde Siria y Líbano) y el que salió de Asia oriental (chinos y japoneses principalmente).}}</ref> many of whom arrived during the second half of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lizcano Fernández|first=Francisco|url=http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf|title=Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI|trans-title=Ethnic Composition of the Three Cultural Areas of the American Continent at the Beginning of the 21st Century|language=es|journal=Convergencia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales|publisher=Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México|location=Toluca, México|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626010236/http://convergencia.uaemex.mx/rev38/38pdf/LIZCANO.pdf|archive-date=26 June 2013|page=194|quote=La  etnia  asiática  tiene  su  origen  en  los  flujos  migratorios que partieron de diversos países de Asia, os cuales fueron especialmente relevantes durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y la primera mitad del XX.}}</ref> Japanese migration mostly came to a halt after World War II (with the exception of [[Japanese settlement in the Dominican Republic]]), while Korean migration mostly came to an end by the 1980s. Chinese migration remains ongoing in a number of countries.

Settlement of war refugees has been extremely minor: a few dozen ex-North Korean soldiers settled in Argentina after the [[Korean War]]<ref name="Bialogorski">{{Cite book|last=Bialogorski|first=Mirta|chapter=La comunidad coreana - Argentina - Logros de una inmigración reciente|pages=275–296|title=Cuando Oriente llegó a América: Contribuciones de inmigrantes chinos, japoneses, y coreanos|publisher=Banco Interamericano De Desarrollo|year=2005|isbn=978-1-931003-73-5}}</ref><ref name="Park">{{Cite book|last=Park|first=Chae-soon|chapter=La emigración coreana en América Latina y sus perspectivas|title=Segundo Congreso del Consejo de Estudios Latinoamericanos de Asia y de Oceania|publisher=Latin American Studies Association of Korea|publication-place=Seoul|year=2007|url=http://www.lasak.or.kr/CELAOfiles/papers/Session3/Park%20Chae%20Soon%5BSession3-2%5D.pdf|access-date=27 September 2008|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722141305/http://www.lasak.or.kr/CELAOfiles/papers/Session3/Park%20Chae%20Soon%5BSession3-2%5D.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2011}}</ref> and some Hmong settled in [[French Guiana]] after the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3498056.stm|work=BBC News|title=Hmong's new lives in Caribbean|date=10 March 2004|access-date=25 April 2010}}</ref>

==Roles in labor==
Asian Latin Americans served various roles during their time as low wage workers in Latin America. In the second half of the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of a million Chinese migrants in Cuba worked primarily on sugar plantations. The Chinese "coolies" who migrated to Peru took up work on the Andean Railroad or the Guano Fields. Over time the Chinese progressed to acquiring work in urban centers as tradesmen, restaurateurs and in the service industry. By the second decade of the nineteenth century, approximately 25,000 Chinese migrants in Mexico found relative success with small businesses, government bureaucracy, and intellectual circles. In the 1830s, the British and Dutch colonial governments also imported South Asians to work as indentured servants to places such as Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Curaçao and British Guiana (later renamed Guayana). At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Japanese immigrants reached Brazil and Peru. Much like the Chinese, the Japanese often worked as indentured servants and low wage workers for planters. Japanese work contracts were notably more short term than those of the Chinese and the process was closely monitored by the Japanese government to dissuade abuse and foul play. In both cases, the influx of Asian migrant workers was to fill the void left in the Latin American work forces after the abolition of slavery. Employers of all kinds were desperate for a low cost replacement for their slaves so those who did not participate in any illegal slave operations turned to the Asian migrants.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A History of Modern Latin America 1800 to the Present|last=Meade|first=Teresa|publisher=John Wiley & Sons. Inc.|year=2016|pages=141}}</ref>

==Geographic distribution==
[[File:Chinatown in Lima, Peru.jpg|left|thumb|Chinatown, Lima-Peru.]]
Four and a half million Latin Americans (almost 1% of the total population of Latin America) are of Asian descent. The number may be millions higher, even more so if all who have partial ancestry are included. For example, Asian Peruvians are estimated at 5%<ref name="ocac.gov.tw"/> of the population there, but one source places the number of all Peruvians with at least ''some'' [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese]] ancestry at 5&nbsp;million, which equates to 20% of the country's total population.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://taste-of-peru.com/peruvian_culture/chinese.php|title=Peruvian Culinary Culture: Chinese Influence|publisher=Taste of Peru|access-date=13 November 2016|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927041027/http://taste-of-peru.com/peruvian_culture/chinese.php|archive-date=27 September 2013}}</ref>
[[File:Praça da Liberdaed 2024 03 24.jpg|thumb|226x226px|The Liberdade neighborhood is a Little Tokyo of São Paulo.]]

The Chinese are the most populous Asian Latin Americans. Significant populations of Chinese ancestry are found in [[Peru]], [[Venezuela]], [[Brazil]], [[Colombia]], [[Argentina]], [[Cuba]], [[Dominican Republic]], [[Panama]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Puerto Rico]], [[Mexico]] and [[Costa Rica]] (where they make up about 1% of the total population; or about 9,000 residents). [[Nicaragua]] is home to 14,000 ethnic Chinese; the majority reside in [[Managua]] and on the [[Caribbean]] coast. Smaller communities of Chinese, numbering just in the hundreds or thousands, are also found in [[Ecuador]] and various other Latin American countries. Many Latin American countries are home to [[Chinatowns in Latin America|barrios chinos]] (Chinatowns).

Most who are of Japanese descent reside in Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia and Paraguay. Japanese Peruvians have a considerable economic position in Peru.<ref name="PJ">Lama, Abraham. Asian Times. Home is where the heartbreak is. 1999.  6 September 2006.<http://www.atimes.com/japan-econ/AJ16Dh01.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106194749/http://atimes.com/japan-econ/AJ16Dh01.html|date=6 January 2010}}>.</ref> Many past and present Peruvian Cabinet members are ethnic Asians, but most particularly Japanese Peruvians have made up large portions of Peru's cabinet members and former president [[Alberto Fujimori]] was of Japanese ancestry who was the only Asian Latin American to have ever served as the head of any Latin American nation (or the second, if taking into account [[Arthur Chung]]). [[Brazil]] is home to the largest [[Japanese diaspora|Japanese]] community outside [[Japan]], numbering about 1.7 million with ancestry alone. Brazil is also home to 10,000 Indians, 5,000 Vietnamese, 4,500 Afghans, 2,900 Indonesians, 2,608 Malaysians, and 1,000 Filipinos.

[[Koreans|Korean people]] are the third largest group of Asian Latin Americans. The largest community of this group is in Brazil (specially in Southeast region) with a population of 51,550. The second largest is in Argentina, with a population of 23,603 and with active [[Koreatown]]s in [[Buenos Aires]]. More 10,000 in Guatemala,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_jCnCQAAQBAJ&dq=12,918+koreans+guatemala&pg=PR18|isbn = 9781498508438|title = Global Pulls on the Korean Communities in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires|date = 10 June 2015|publisher = Lexington Books}}</ref> and Mexico, This last with active communities in [[Monterrey]], [[Guadalajara]], [[Coatzacoalcos]], [[Yucatan]] and [[Mexico City]]. More than 1,000 in Chile, Paraguay, Venezuela, Honduras and Peru where Jung Heung-won, a Korean Peruvian, was elected mayor in City of [[Chanchamayo District|Chanchamayo]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20110116000160 | title=Ethnic Korean elected mayor in Peru | date=16 January 2011 }}</ref> He is the first Mayor of Korean origin in Peru and all of Latin America. There are small and important communities (less 1,000 peoples) in Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Puerto Rico.

==Emigrant communities==
[[File:Japanese Immigration Santo Domingo.jpg|thumb|Monument dedicated to Japanese Immigration in Santo Domingo (Paseo Bellini).|217x217px|left]]

===Japan===
{{Main|Dekasegi}}
[[Brazilians in Japan|Japanese Brazilian immigrants to Japan]] numbered 250,000 in 2004, constituting Japan's second-largest immigrant population.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6996|title=Japanese Brazilian Return Migration and the Making of Japan's Newest Immigrant Minority|access-date=21 March 2008|author=Richard Gunde|date=27 January 2004|publisher=UCLA International Institute|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204213520/http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=6996|archive-date=4 February 2012}}</ref> Their experiences bear similarities to those of Japanese Peruvian immigrants, who are often relegated to low income jobs typically occupied by foreigners.<ref name="PJ"/>

===United States===
{{Main|Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans}}
In the [[2000 United States census|2000 US Census]], 119,829 Hispanic or Latino [[Demographics of the United States|Americans]] identified as being of Asian race alone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-1.pdf|title=Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2000|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> In 2006 the Census Bureau's [[American Community Survey]] estimated them at 154,694,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=B03002. HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE - Universe: TOTAL POPULATION|work=2006 American Community Survey|access-date=21 March 2008|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> while its Population Estimates, which are official, put them at 277,704.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=T4-2006. Hispanic or Latino By Race <nowiki>[15]</nowiki>|access-date=21 March 2008 |work=Data Set: 2006 Population Estimates|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref>

==Composition==
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|+Asian Latin American population (incomplete data)
|- style="background:#efefef;"
!Country
!{{flagicon|China}} [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese]]
!{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Japanese diaspora|Japanese]]
!{{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Korean diaspora|Korean]]
!{{flagicon|Philippines}} [[Overseas Filipinos|Filipino]]
!Others
!References
|- 
|{{flag|Argentina}}
|No data
|115,000
|100,063
|20,000
|100,000
|
|-
|{{flag|Bolivia}}
|No data
|14,178
|654
|39
|No data
|
|-
|{{flag|Brazil}}
|350,000
|2,000,000
|50,281
|29,578
|No data
|<ref name="ocac.gov.tw"/><ref name="japao100.com.br">{{Cite web|url=http://www.japao100.com.br/arquivo/nipo-brasileiros-estao-mais-presentes/|title=Publicação do IBGE traz artigos, mapas e distribuição geográfica dos nikkeis no Brasil|access-date=2 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222062052/http://www.japao100.com.br/arquivo/nipo-brasileiros-estao-mais-presentes/|archive-date=22 December 2013|url-status = dead}}
</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://oglobo.globo.com/economia/com-crescimento-dos-negocios-chineses-mudam-imagem-para-ampliar-influencia-no-brasil-24199326 | title=Com crescimento dos negócios, chineses mudam imagem para ampliar influência no Brasil | date=19 January 2020 }}</ref>
|-
||{{flag|Chile}}
|No data
|7,500
|2,700
|8,000
|No data
|
|-
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|No data
|4,000<ref>{{Cite web |title=Japan-Colombia Relations (Basic Data) |url=https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/latin/colombia/data.html |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan |language=en}}</ref>
|12,000
|17,000
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.kr/webmodule/htsboard/template/read/korboardread.jsp?typeID=6&boardid=232&seqno=354018&c=&t=&pagenum=1&tableName=TYPE_DATABOARD&pc=&dc=&wc=&lu=&vu=&iu=&du=|title=외교부 홈페이지에 오신것을 환영합니다.|date=31 May 2015|access-date=17 November 2018|archive-date=31 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531051548/http://www.mofa.go.kr/webmodule/htsboard/template/read/korboardread.jsp?typeID=6&boardid=232&seqno=354018&c=&t=&pagenum=1&tableName=TYPE_DATABOARD&pc=&dc=&wc=&lu=&vu=&iu=&du=|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/colombia/data.html|script-title=ja:コロンビア基礎データ ｜ 外務省|trans-title=Republic of Colombia: Basic data|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|access-date=13 November 2016}}</ref>
|
|- 
|{{flag|Costa Rica}}
|9,170
|No data
|No data
|No data
|No data
|<ref name="archivo.crhoy.com"/><ref>{{cite web|format=XLS|url=http://www.inec.go.cr/05Censos/01CensoDePoblacion/cuadrosDelCenso/03Sociales/cuadros/C01.%20Población%20total%20por%20zona%20y%20sexo,%20según%20provincia%20y%20etnia/C1.xls|title=Cuadro N° 1: Poblacion total. Por: zona y sexo. Segun: provincia y etnia|trans-title=Table No. 1: Total population. By: area and sex. By: province and ethnicity|language=es|access-date=21 March 2008|work=National Institute of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica (INEC)|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219122308/http://www.inec.go.cr/05Censos/01CensoDePoblacion/cuadrosDelCenso/03Sociales/cuadros/C01.%20Poblaci%C3%B3n%20total%20por%20zona%20y%20sexo%2C%20seg%C3%BAn%20provincia%20y%20etnia/C1.xls|archive-date=19 February 2009}}</ref><!-- Chinese -->
|-
|{{flag|Cuba}}
|No data
|1200
|900
|No data
|No data
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|847
|675
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|95,000
|10,000
|714
|1,000
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|{{flag|El Salvador}}
|2,140
|176
|151
|No data
|103
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||{{flag|Guatemala}}
|13,700
|288
|12,918
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|1,415
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|90,000
|75,000
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|100,000
|1,300
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|{{flag|Nicaragua}}
|14,000<ref name="Han Chinese, Mandarin in Nicaragua"/>
|145
|745
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||{{flag|Panama}}
|258,886<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://paisanito.com/comunidad-china-en-panama/|title=comunidad china Panama|website=Paisanito.com - Comunidad China en Panama -|language=es|access-date=27 February 2020}}</ref>
|456
|421
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|9,484
|5,039
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|1,300,000<ref name="ocac.gov.tw"/>
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|7,500
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|>2,200
|10,486
|109
|9,832
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|3,456
|216
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==Notable Asian Latino persons==
'''Argentina'''
*[[Juliana Awada]], former First Lady of Argentina, Lebanese Argentine.
*[[Carlos Balá]], actor of Lebanese descent.
*[[Yamila Diaz-Rahi]], model of Lebanese descent.
*[[Dumbfoundead]], rapper Argentine-born Korean American Rapper.
*[[Liu Song (table tennis)|Liu Song]], table tennis player; Chinese Argentine.
*[[Ignacio Huang]], actor; Taiwanese Argentine.
*[[Hoshitango Imachi]], ex-sumo wrestler, Japanese Argentine.
*[[Mario Alberto Ishii]], political and mayor of the region [[José C. Paz Partido|José C. Paz]], Japanese Argentine.
*{{ill|Natalia Kim|es}}, actress and model, Korean Argentine.
*[[Chang Sung Kim]], actor, Korean Argentine.
*[[María Kodama]], writer of Japanese descent.
*{{ill|Katsutoshi Kurata|es}}, martial artist, Japanese Argentine.
*{{ill|Margarita Lee|es|Señorita Lee}} "Señorita Lee"; model, actress and television host; Korean Argentine. 
*{{ill|Yoshihiro Matsumura|es}}, martial artist, Japanese Argentine.
*[[Carlos Menem]], lawyer and politician, former president of Argentina, Syrian Argentine.
*[[Eduardo Menem]], politician and brother of Carlos Menem, Syrian Argentine. 
*[[Jessica Michibata]], fashion model; Japanese Argentine.
*{{ill|Sergio Nakasone|es}} producer and TV director, Japanese Argentine.
*[[Leonardo Nam]], actor; Korean Argentine. 
*[[Jae Park]], Korean American singer-songwriter born in Argentina.
*{{ill|Kazuya Sakai|es}}, painter, Japanese Argentine.
*[[María Eugenia Suárez]], actress and singer; Japanese Argentine.
*[[Alicia Terada]], politician, Japanese Argentine.
*[[Marco (actor)|Marco]], actor; Korean Argentine.
*[[Chanty (singer)|Chanty]], actress, model and singer; Filipina Argentine

'''Bolivia'''
* [[Chi Hyun Chung]], politician; Korean Bolivian
* [[Juan Pereda]], politician; Palestinian Bolivian
* [[Pedro Shimose]], poet; Japanese Bolivian

'''Brazil'''
* [[Erica Awano]], manga artist; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Suresh Biswas]], adventurer; Indo-Brazilian
* [[Ken Chang]], singer; Chinese Brazilian
* [[Sérgio Echigo]], former footballer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Boris Fausto]], historian, political scientist and writer; Turkish Brazilian
* [[Alexandr Fier]], chess grandmaster; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Ashok Gandotra]], cricketer; Indo-Brazilian
* [[Kaio Felipe Gonçalves]], striker; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Luiz Gushiken]], union leader and politician; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Sandro Hiroshi]], footballer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Hugo Hoyama]], tennis player; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Fabiane Hukuda]], judoka; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Kaisei Ichirō]], sumo wrestler; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Thereza Imanishi-Kari]], professor; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Ryoki Inoue]], writer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Vânia Ishii]], judoka; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Cláudio Kano]], table tennis player; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Nathalia Kaur]], model and actress; Indian descent
* [[Reishin Kawai]], aikido practitioner and acupuncturist; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Pedro Ken]], footballer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Allam Khodair]], race car driver; Japanese Lebanese Brazilian
* [[Felipe Kitadai]], judoka; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Paulinho Kobayashi]], footballer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Luca Kumahara]], table tennis player; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Yanna Lavigne]], actress and model; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Iara Lee]], producer, director and activist; Korean Brazilian
* [[Gui Lin]], table tennis player; Chinese Brazilian
* [[Lovefoxxx]], singer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Manabu Mabe]], painter; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Lyoto Machida]], mixed martial artist; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Mitsuyo Maeda]], judo master and developer of Brazilian jiu-jitsu; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Daniel Matsunaga]], model, host, actor and footballer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Jo Matumoto]], former pro baseball player; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Froilano de Mello]], microbiologist; Indo-Brazilian
* [[Paulo Miyashiro]], triathlete; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Carlos Morimoto]], author; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Mariana Ohata]], triathlete; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Ruy Ohtake]], architect; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Tomie Ohtake]], artist; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Oscar Oiwa]], painter, visual artist and architect; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Leandro Okabe]], model; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Tetsuo Okamoto]], swimmer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Poliana Okimoto]], long-distance swimmer and gold medalist; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Pedro Okuda]], baseball shortstop; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Luís Onmura]], judoka; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Hiroo Onoda]], former Japanese Army officer; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Angela Park]], golfer; Korean Brazilian
* [[Andy Pi]], martial artist; Chinese Brazilian
* [[Rogério Romero]], swimmer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Lucas Salatta]], backstroke swimmer; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Silvio Santos]], television host and entrepreneur; Turkish Brazilian
* [[Michel Temer]], politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th [[President of Brazil]]; Lebanese descent
* [[Daniella Sarahyba]], model; Lebanese descent
* [[Akihiro Sato (model)|Akihiro Sato]], model; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Sabrina Sato]], model; Japanese and Lebanese descent
* [[Luis Shinohara]], former judoka; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Lígia Silva]], table tennis player; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Marcos Sugiyama]], volleyball player; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Mahau Suguimati]], track hurdler; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Jung Mo Sung]], lay theologian; Korean Brazilian
* [[Manabu Suzuki]], racer; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Rafael Suzuki]], racer; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Rodrigo Tabata]], footballer; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Marlon Teixeira]], model; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Alex Yuwan Tjong]], badminton player; Indonesian Brazilian 
* [[Geovanna Tominaga]], television host and actress; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Gustavo Tsuboi]], table tennis player; Japanese Brazilian 
* [[Felipe Wu]], sport shooter; Chinese Brazilian
* [[Jenifer Widjaja]], tennis player; Indonesian Brazilian
* [[Stênio Yamamoto]], sports shooter; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Mario Yamasaki]], MMA fighter; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Carlos Yoshimura]], baseball pitcher; Japanese Brazilian
* [[Marcus Tulio Tanaka]], football player; Japanese Brazilian

'''Chile'''
*[[Edgardo Abdala]], footballer, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Carlos Abumohor]], businessman and investor, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Roberto Bishara|Roberto Bishara Adawi]], footballer, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Diamela Eltit]], writer, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Fernando Chomalí Garib]], Roman Catholic Archbishop of Santiago, Palestinian Chilean 
*[[Daud Gazale]], footballer, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Ricardo Marzuca]], professor at Universidad de Chile, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Daniel Jadue]], politician, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Sergio Jadue]], football executive, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Alfonso Leng]], composer; Chinese Chilean
*[[Miguel Littin]], movie director and screenwriter, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Luis Musrri]], footballer, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Miguel Nasur]] Allel, businessman and football club owner, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Carlos Ominami]], economist and politician; Japanese Chilean
*[[Quintín Quintana]], businessmen; Chinese Chilean 
*[[José Said]], businessman, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Álvaro Saieh]], businessman, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Arturo Salah]], former football player, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Fernando Solabarrieta|Fernando Solabarrieta Chelech]], journalist, TV presenter, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Rafael Tarud]], politician, Palestinian Chilean
*[[José Zalaquett|José Zalaquett Daher]], lawyer, Palestinian Chilean
*[[Marko Zaror]], martial artist, actor, Palestinian Chilean

'''Colombia'''
*[[Shakira]], of partial [[Lebanese people|Lebanese]] descent
*[[Farina (singer)|Farina]], Colombian rapper and reggaeton singer of Peruvian and Lebanese descent.
*[[José Kaor Dokú]], ex-soccer player and ex-military; Japanese Colombian.
*{{ill|Maru Yamayusa|es}}, Colombian actress, partial Japanese descent.
*[[Yu Takeuchi]], mathematician; Japanese Colombian.
*{{ill|Yuriko Londoño|es|Yuriko Londoño}}, actress and model; Japanese Colombian.
*[[Laura González (Miss Colombia)|Laura González]], Miss Colombia 2017; Lebanese descent.
*[[Jordy Monroy]], footballer, born in Colombia; Armenian origin
*[[Nydia Quintero Turbay]], former First Lady of Colombia; Lebanese descent.
*[[Julio César Turbay Ayala]], former lawyer and politician, Also former [[President of Colombia]]; Lebanese descent.
*[[Manuel Teodoro]], American journalist of Colombian and Filipino descent.
*[[Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974)|Lisa]], Japanese singer-songwriter; Colombian mother
 
'''Costa Rica'''
* [[Franklin Chang-Diaz]], former [[NASA]] [[astronaut]]; Chinese Spanish Costa Rican
* [[Cheng Siu Chung]], retired football player, coach; Chinese Costa Rican
* [[Eduardo Li]], president of the Costa Rican football federation; Chinese Costa Rican
* [[Harry Shum Jr.]], actor; Chinese Costa Rican

'''Cuba'''
* [[Fulgencio Batista]], former President of Cuba; of partial Chinese heritage
* [[Yamil Chade]], boxing manager; Lebanese Cuban
* [[Yat-Sen Chang]], ballet dancer; Chinese Cuban
* [[Emilio Estefan]], musician; Lebanese Cuban
* [[Wifredo Lam]], artist; Afro-Chinese-Cuban
* [[Alfredo Abon Lee]], army officer; Chinese Cuban
* [[Jeronimo Lim Kim]], Korean Cuban known for being a part of the [[Cuban Revolution]]

'''Dominican Republic'''
* [[Elías Wessin y Wessin]], politician; Lebanese Dominican
* [[Wu Xue]], table tennis player; Chinese Dominican
* [[Akari Endo]], Japanese-Dominican actress
* [[Lian Qian|Lian "Jenifer" Qian]], Chinese Dominican table tennis player
* [[Jhené Aiko]], American singer; Japanese Dominican mother
* [[Mila J]], American singer and rapper; Japanese Dominican mother

'''Ecuador'''
* [[Li Jian (footballer, born 1989)|Li Jian]] - midfielder; Chinese Ecuadorian
* [[Jinsop]], singer; Korean Ecuadorian
* [[Alberto Dahik]], politician; Lebanese Ecuadorian
* [[Carlos Moncayo]], co-founder and CEO of Asiam; Chinese Ecuadorian
* [[Jaime Nebot]], lawyer and former mayor Guayaquil; Lebanese Ecuadorian
* [[Julio Teodoro Salem]], politician; Lebanese Ecuadorian

'''El Salvador''' 
* [[Nayib Bukele]], president of El Salvador since 2019; Palestinian descent
* [[Xavier Zablah Bukele]], cousin of Nayib and politician; Palestinian descent
* [[Takeshi Fujiwara]], sprinter and athlete; Japanese Salvadoran

'''Guatemala'''
* [[Myrna Mack]], anthropologist; Chinese and [[Maya peoples|Maya]] descent
* [[Helen Mack Chang]], businesswoman and human rights activist; Chinese Guatemalan

'''Honduras'''
* {{ill|Rodrigo Wong Arevalo|es|Rodrigo Wong Arévalo}}, journalist and TV host; Chinese Honduran
* [[Hajime Waki|Hajime waki]], Musician; Japanese Honduran

'''Mexico'''
{{Main list|List of Asian Mexicans}}
* [[Alberto Arai]], architect, theorist and writer; Japanese Mexican
* [[Eduardo Auyón]], artist and cultural promoter; Chinese Mexican
* [[Jesús Chong]], boxer; Chinese Mexican
* [[Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong]], secretary of the interior of Mexico; Chinese Mexican
* [[Axel Didriksson]], writer and professor; Japanese Mexican
* [[Jocelyn Enriquez]], singer and songwriter, Filipino Mexican
* [[Ana Gabriel]], Mexican singer and composer; Chinese on her mother's side
* [[Zhenli Ye Gon]], businessman and alleged drug trafficker; Chinese Mexican
* [[Jesús Kumate Rodríguez]], Physician and former Secretary of Health; Japanese Mexican
* [[Xóchitl Hamada]], pro wrestler; Japanese Mexican
* [[Hiromi Hayakawa]], singer; Japanese Mexican
* [[Salma Hayek]], actress and producer; Lebanese descent
* [[Gilberto Hirata]], state deputy; Japanese Mexican
* [[Tomoki Kameda]], undefeated Boxer; Japanese Mexican
* [[Su Muy Key]], actress and dancer; Chinese Mexican
* [[Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje]], revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian; Indo-Mexican
* [[Pablo Larios]], goalkeeper; Japanese Mexican
* [[Juan Manuel Ley]], founder and chairman of [[Casa Ley]]; Chinese Mexican
* [[Alejandro Moreno Cardenas]], former governor of [[Campeche]] and national president of the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]]; Filipino Mexican
* [[Alejandro Gómez Maganda]], politician and former governor of the state of [[Guerrero]]; Filipino Mexican
* [[Eizi Matuda]], botanist; Japanese Mexican
* [[Lyn May]], actress, exotic dancer and acrobat; Chinese Mexican
* [[Patricia Castañeda Miyamoto]], swimmer; Japanese Mexican
* [[Daiwon Moon]], martial artist; Korean Mexican
* [[Kenya Mori]], actress; Japanese Mexican
* [[Noé Murayama]], actor; Japanese Mexican
* [[Úrsula Murayama]], actress; Japanese Mexican
* [[Fumiko Nakashima]], artist; Japanese Mexican
* [[Carlos Nakatani]], artist; Japanese Mexican
* [[Isidoro Montes de Oca]], revolutionary general; Filipino Mexican
* [[Ramón Fabié]], revolutionary soldier; Filipino Mexican
* {{ill|Luis Pinzón|es}}, revolutionary soldier; Filipino Mexican
* [[Kiyoto Ota]], sculptor; Japanese Mexican
* [[Sanjaya Rajaram]], [[agronomist]]; Indo-Mexican
* [[M.N. Roy]], nationalist revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist; Indo-Mexican
* [[Catarina de San Juan]], the [[China Poblana]]; Indo-Mexican
* [[Sugi Sito]], pro wrestler; Chinese Mexican
* [[Romeo Villalva Tabuena]], painter and printmaker; Filipino Mexican
* [[Nancy Taira]], actress; Japanese Mexican
* [[Huang Yiguang]], politician and aviator; Chinese Mexican

'''Nicaragua'''
* [[Arlen Siu]], martyr of the 1979 [[FSLN|Sandinista revolution]]; Chinese Nicaraguan
* [[Zach King]], American internet personality, filmmaker, and illusionist; Chinese Nicaraguan

'''Paraguay'''
*[[Mario Abdo Benítez]], President of Paraguay; Lebanese descent.
*[[Mitsuhide Tsuchida]], footballer, Japanese Paraguayan.

'''Panama'''
*[[Jorge Cham]], web comic creator of [[Piled Higher and Deeper]], Chinese Panamanian.<ref>{{cite web|title=Piled Higher and Deeper|url=http://www.phdcomics.com/|website=Phdcomics.com|access-date=17 August 2018}}</ref>
*[[Bruce Chen]], pitcher for the [[Cleveland Indians]], Chinese Panamanian.<ref>{{citation|first=Jorge|last=Arangure|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/04/AR2006040402068.html|title=Chen Grew From Distinct Roots|newspaper=Washington Post|date=2006-04-05|access-date=2007-08-06}}</ref>
*[[Roberto Chen]], Panamanian footballer of Chinese descent
*[[Federico Fong]], musician, Panamanian-born father of Chinese descent 
*[[Marelissa Him]], model, part Chinese on her father's side
*[[Shey Ling Him Gordon]], Panama's delegate to the [[Miss World 2007]] competition, Chinese Panamanian.<ref>{{citation|title=Con destino a Sanya|periodical=La Prensa, Panamá|last=Rodríguez|first=Gabriel|date=2007-10-29|access-date=2007-11-11|url=http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2007/10/29/hoy/vivir/1158575.html|language=es|archive-date=22 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522120037/http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2007/10/29/hoy/vivir/1158575.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> 
*[[Sigrid Nunez]], American writer (Chinese-Panamanian father, German mother)<ref>{{cite web|title=Sigrid Nunez|url=http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/sigrid_nunez.php|website=Themorningnews.org|date=29 March 2007 |access-date=17 August 2018}}</ref>
* [[Mehr Eliezer]] - Winner of [[Señorita Panamá 2019]], Indian Panamanian.

'''Peru'''
* [[Ernesto Arakaki]], footballer; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Kenji Cabrera]], footballer; Japanese Peruvian
* [[José Antonio Chang]], former Prime Minister of Peru; Chinese Peruvian 
* [[Alberto Fujimori]], [[President of Peru]] from 1990 to 2000; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Keiko Fujimori]], Congresswoman; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Kenji Fujimori]], Congressman; Japanese-Peruvian
* [[Gu-Rum Choi]], footballer; Korean Peruvian 
* [[Susana Higuchi]], politician and engineer; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Jorge Hirano]], [[Association football|international football player]]; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Fernando Iwasaki]], writer and historian; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Haruki Kanashiro]], goalkeeper; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Elena Keldibekova]], volleyball player; Kazakh Peruvian
* [[Valentina Shevchenko]], mixed martial artist; Kyrgyz Peruvian
* [[Humberto Lay]], architect and cleric; Chinese Peruvian
* [[Iván Miranda]], tennis player; Chinese Peruvian
* [[Aldo Miyashiro]], artist; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Augusto Miyashiro]], engineer and politician; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Kaoru Morioka]], futsal player; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Sum Nung]], Wing Chun grandmaster; Chinese Peruvian
* [[José Pereda]], retired footballer; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Víctor Polay]], one of the founders of the [[Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement]]; Chinese Peruvian
* [[Venancio Shinki]], painter; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Hector Takayama]], former footballer; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Eduardo Tokeshi]], artist; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Tilsa Tsuchiya]], artist; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Edwin Vásquez]], Olympic shooter; Chinese Peruvian
* [[José Watanabe]], poet; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Víctor Joy Way]], former Prime Minister of Peru; Chinese Peruvian
* [[Alan Wong]], chef; Chinese Peruvian
* [[Erasmo Wong]], businessman, owner of various retail chains; Chinese Peruvian
* [[Patty Wong (model)|Patty Wong]], model; Chinese Peruvian
* [[Ricardo Wong]], politician; Chinese Peruvian
* [[Rafael Yamashiro]], politician; Japanese Peruvian
* [[César Ychikawa]], vocalist; Japanese Peruvian
* [[David Soria Yoshinari]], footballer; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Jaime Yoshiyama]], politician; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Carlos Yushimito]], writer; Japanese Peruvian
* [[Pedro Zulen]], philosopher; Chinese Peruvian

'''Puerto Rico'''
* [[Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya]], writer, performer and theater director; Indo-Puerto Rican
* [[Eduardo Bhatia]], politician and senator; Indo-Puerto Rican
* [[Lakshmi Singh]], newscaster on [[NPR]]
* [[Ruth D. Thorne]], author; Indo-Puerto Rican
* [[Bruno Mars]], singer, songwriter, record producer, musician and dancer; Filipino and Puerto Rican

'''Uruguay'''
* [[Alberto Abdala]], Former Vice-president of Uruguay; Lebanese Uruguayan
* [[Barbara Mori]], Uruguyan-born Mexican actress; Japanese and Lebanese descent

'''Venezuela'''
* [[Alex Cabrera|Alex Cabrera Suzuki]], [[Venezuelans|Venezuelan]] first baseman and right-handed batter who played in [[Major League Baseball]] and [[Nippon Professional Baseball]]; Japanese Venezuelan
* [[Hana Kobayashi]], singer; Japanese Venezuelan
* [[Kamala Lopez]], American actress, director, and political activist (born in [[New York City]] but raised in Venezuela); Indian Venezuelan
* [[Naomi Soazo]], Venezuelan judoka; Japanese Venezuelan
* [[Henry Zakka]], Venezuelan actor; Japanese Venezuelan
* [[Tarek William Saab]], Prosecutor General of Venezuela and former ombudsman; Lebanese Venezuelan
* [[Tareck El Aissami]], former Vice President of Venezuela; Lebanese Venezuelan
* [[Elías Jaua]], Minister of Education, former Foreign Minister and Vice President of Venezuela; Lebanese Venezuelan
* [[Mariam Habach]], Miss Venezuela 2015; Syrian descent
* [[James Tahhan]], Venezuelan chef; Syrian Venezuelan

==See also==
{{Portal|Latin America}}
* [[Latin Americans]]
* [[Chinese Latin American cuisine]]
* [[Chinatowns in Latin America]]
* [[Japantown]]
* [[Koreatown]]

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

==Further reading==
* Affigne, Tony, and Pei-te Lien. "Peoples of Asian descent in the Americas: Theoretical implications of race and politics." ''Amerasia Journal'' 28.2 (2002): 1-27.
* Avila-Tàpies, Rosalia, and Josefina Domínguez-Mujica. "Postcolonial migrations and diasporic linkages between Latin America and Japan and Spain." ''Asian and Pacific Migration Journal'' 24.4 (2015): 487–511.
* Chee Beng Tan, and Walton Look Lai, eds. ''The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean'' (2010) [https://books.google.com/books?id=xrGShVU6VrgC excerpt]
* Fu, Puo-An Wu. "Transpacific Subjectivities:" Chinese"--Latin American Literature after Empire." in ''Chinese America: History and Perspectives'' (2018): 13–20.
* Hu-Dehart, Evelyn. "The Chinese of Peru, Cuba, and Mexico." in ''The Cambridge survey of world migration'' (1995): 220–222.
* Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. "Coolies, Shopkeepers, Pioneers: The Chinese of Mexico and Peru (1849–1930)." ''Amerasia Journal'' 15.2 (1989): 91–116.
*Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, and James A. Hirabayashi, eds. ''New worlds, new lives: Globalization and people of Japanese descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan''. Stanford University Press, 2002.
*Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. "Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective Evelyn Hu-DeHart." ''Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions'' (2007): 29+.
*Jingsheng, Dong. "Chinese emigration to Mexico and the Sino-Mexico relations before 1910." ''Estudios Internacionales'' (2006): 75–88.
* Kikuchi, Hirokazu. "The Representation of East Asia in Latin American Legislatures." ''Issues & Studies'' 53.01 (2017): 1740005. doi: 10.1142/S1013251117400057
*Kim, Hahkyung. "Korean Immigrants' Place in the Discourse of Mestizaje: A History of Race-Class Dynamics and Asian Immigration in Yucatán, Mexico." ''Revista Iberoamericana'' (2012).
* Lee, Rachel. "Asian American cultural production in Asian-Pacific perspective." ''boundary 2'' 26.2 (1999): 231–254. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/303801 online]
* Lim, Rachel. "Racial Transmittances: Hemispheric Viralities of Anti-Asian Racism and Resistance in Mexico." ''Journal of Asian American Studies'' 23.3 (2020): 441–457.
*Masterson, Daniel M. ''[[The Japanese in Latin America]]''. [[University of Illinois Press]], 2004. 0252071441, 9780252071447.
*Min, Man-Shik. "Far East Asian immigration into Latin America." ''Korea & world affairs'' 11.2 (1987): 331+
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==External links==
* [http://www.colorq.org/MeltingPot/America/LatinoAsian.htm Asian-Latino Intermarriage in The Americas]
* [http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp75.html The Importance of Being Japanese in Bolivia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183909/http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp75.html |date=3 March 2016 }}
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