Abstract

PALACIOS, Héctor. Japón y México: el inicio de sus relaciones y la inmigración japonesa durante el Porfiriato. Méx.cuenca pac [online]. 2012, vol.1, n.1, pp.105-140. ISSN 2007-5308.

At mid-19th Century, political and military facts from Japan and Mexico began to walk by similar paths because external pressures and internal instability of each one. At the end of that ways was the promise of became modern nation-states able to join to international “order”. Then, in some moment both nations met themselves: they signed in 1888 a Friendship, Navigation and Commerce Agreement, the first one of its type gotten by Japan about equality conditions. One of the consequences of this Agreement -maybe the most important- was the migratory flux from Japan to Mexico, started at 1897 by the migrants sent by viscount Enomoto to Mexican state of Chiapas. Beginning the 20th Century, thousands of Japanese arrived to Mexican ports. A few of them stayed in Guadalajara city, specific case broached on final pages of this article.

Keywords : History; Japan; Mexico; migration; bilateral relationships; Meiji; Porfiriato; Guadalajara.

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