Talk:Japanese in the United Kingdom

Sean Lennon
Not sure about the inclusion of Sean Lennon, as I'm not sure he's British. He was born in New York and I believe he is, and always has been, a US citizen. He could claim citizenship based on having a British father, but I don't beleive he ever has. Can anyone shed any light on this? Indisciplined (talk) 17:18, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Iain Duncan Smith
As Japanese as 1/8th of his ancestry might be, can IDS seriously be called 'British Japanese'? Surely use of a qualifier before 'British' implies that there is a profound link between the two identites for the person it is being applied to. It may well be an interesting fact, but he is not Japanese, ethnically or culturally.Porridgebowl (talk) 05:55, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree, If this is the case, why not include Portuguese British in the `Black' category as they have the highest frequencies of Negro DNA in any European population! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.176.7.179 (talk) 12:47, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If he ever self-identified as 'Japanese' it might be acceptable. But as far as I know he hasn't. Cop 663 (talk) 16:26, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Japanese expatriates
An anonymous IP removed ... and I reverted the edit. This posting explains a bit about what I was thinking.

A couple of months ago, I would have thought this edit was self-evident, obvious; but now I'm persuaded to examine the issues a bit more closely. This changed perspective comes as a result of discussions with others interested in. I'm wondering about the extent to which Wikipedia articles about the Nikkei might be better served by melding or marrying the slightly divergent perspectives in:
 * Japanese Foreign Ministry: Japan-Netherlands Relations
 * Statistics Nederlands; Statistics Netherlands
 * Japaners in Nederland

Expressed differently, is this article about Japanese British to be confined solely to those British citizens of Japanese ancestry living in Briton? Well, yes of course ... but ....

But then the question becomes, what about all the other people who make up the Japanese community in the United Kingdom. If you attend a summer Obon matsuri, the noteworthy memories you take away will not include the passport status of each person in that gathering. If the article needs to address something about
 * (a) individual Britons with ancestors coming from an East Asian string of islands south of the Sakhalin Penninsula?
 * (b) an ethnic group within the statistical and demographic cohort of persons living in the United Kingdom?
 * (c) the Japanese community in a variety of locations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
 * (d) maybe others I just haven't thought to mention just now?

If these are relevant factors to be considered, then that easy decision about deleting the category is not so simple. --Tenmei (talk) 04:34, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Demographics
The demographics seem to be quite misleading. I am sure that a substantial number of white people were born in Japan when their parents were working or living there, but then moved back to the UK. On the other hand, a lot of Japanese people were born in the UK. The first group are wrongly included in the numbers and second group wrongly excluded. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.249.117 (talk) 18:54, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Addresses of Japanese schools
This link http://www.internetjourney.co.uk/cgi-bin/lonnavi.cgi?CATEGORY=JAPANESE_SCHOOLS_COLLEGES - http://archive.is/MJ3Re seems to have street addresses of several current and former Japanese schools. This may help in finding information about them WhisperToMe (talk) 02:58, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 5 March 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved. Number   5  7  15:56, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Japanese community in the United Kingdom → Japanese in the United Kingdom – Drop the use of community. The title should be the same as all the other article that pertain to ethnic groups living the in the UK. There could well be Japanese who live in the UK who do identify/ or feel part of any so-called "community". 86.182.40.221 (talk) 16:23, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

It should match all the other articles in this category; they have the style "xxx in the United Kingdom". 86.182.40.221 (talk) 16:23, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak support: There appears little consistency in any of the categories of which this article is a member! See Category:Japanese diaspora by country, Category:British people of Asian descent and Category:Immigration to the United Kingdom by country of origin for example. But agree that community seems out of place. Suggest move or relist, unsure of which, this is an improvement but possibly not the best solution, and is there an active Wikiproject that might be interested in this and wider issues? Andrewa (talk) 04:33, 13 March 2016 (UTC)


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