The Japanese started to arrive in considerable numbers in Brussels in the 1950s.

[2][3] It is the largest Japanese garden in Western Europe, extending for 2.5 hectares.

[5][6] There is a good relationship between the city of Ostend and the Japanese company Daikin, located in the industrial area of Ostend, and whose company buildings can be seen along the Ostend-Brussels highway.

[7] In Laeken, Brussels, there is a Japanese tower, built between 1900 and 1904 by order of King Leopold II.

[11] In Auderghem, near the Japanese School, there is a street named Avenue Nippone [fr] ("Nipponic Avenue"—Nippon means "Japan" in Japanese),[12] opened and named thus in 1986, due to its proximity to the school.