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The increase in Filipino residents in Japan stems from the influx of female entertainers facilitated by the migration industry since the late 1980s. They later settled as marriage migrants while joining their Japanese husbands’ households scattered throughout Japan, making it difficult for them to form ethnic enclaves. However, there are some small-scale enclaves in the gateway cities for Filipinos. First, we can consider the Sakae-Higashi District of Naka Ward, Nagoya City, which had nearly 100 so-called Philippine pubs between the 1990s and 2005; in this area, self-help groups and an ethnic school emerged. Another type of recent Filipino enclave is typified by Yaizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, which is famous for its major fishing port; here, a manpower agency has employed hundreds of Filipino Nikkei**, or Japanese descendants, since the 2000s and, moreover, has provided them with apartments as a means of efficient labor management. Both of these enclaves highlight the role of the migration industry, which guides migrants to their first job as well as to their place of residence.
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Takahata, S. (2021). Filipino Enclaves as Products of Migration Industry: Cases in a Big City’s Downtown and a Port City’s Coastal Area. In: Ishikawa, Y. (eds) Ethnic Enclaves in Contemporary Japan. International Perspectives in Geography, vol 14. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6995-5_5
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