Sri Lankans in Japan
[5] Sri Lanka has sometimes been historically grouped with South East Asian countries due to the predominance of sea-based travel in ancient and pre-modern history and the cultural exchange that came with it, along with notable modern ties between Sri Lanka and South East Asia.
[14] Though often overlooked in western academia, Buddhism was transmitted through trade routes across South East Asia in addition to the Sinophere.
[15] As in Sri Lanka, there remains a great deal of confluence between Buddhism and Hinduism, which are integrated into Shintoism in Japan.
Ceylon, the name of the island since the Portuguese conquest, was one of the largest strongholds of the Dutch East India Company, which streteched across the Indian Ocean from Dejima in Nagasaki to Cape Town in South Africa.
The Dutch-Ceylonese would continue to influence the country strongly throughout British Ceylon due to the expertise they had in administration, and retained strong connections with the trade infrastructure Dutch East India Company while assuming the connections of the British East India Company.
[18] Artwork from the Edo period shows Indians with their stereotpical dark brown skin and colourful patterns of the Coromandel design;[19] many of the sepoys and merchants working on the Dutch East India Company ships to Dejima were of Indian/Ceylonese descent.
[22] The Kandy Conference in Ceylon was the location where former Imperial Japan forces of Burma met with British authorities in the aftermath of the Japanese surrender to decide on their new future.
Sri Lankans were also often chosen to work in administrative roles in the East India Companies due to being colonised by the Portuguese, Dutch and British at an earlier stage and having a higher literacy rate.
[24] Trade was often imported and exported from Nagasaki to Ceylon by the Dutch East India Company, such as kimonos[25] and copper.
Sri Lankans also have access to the ‘Special Skilled Worker’ category in nursing care, food service, construction and agriculture.
[34] Schools in Sri Lanka offer training in the Japanese language at O-Level and A-Level targeting employment in 14 sectors including nursing, hospitality, building cleaning, agricultural activities, motor mechanics, electronics and electrical engineering.
Called Shojin Ryori, Emperor Tenmu prohibited the killing and eating of meat in 675 AD, though the ban was largely ignored and eventually removed a hundred years later.
The temple food is a strict interpretation of Indian vegetarianism and avoids both dairy products and certain root vegetables.
[44] Curry (カレー, karē) is a loanword from Tamil (கறி kaṟi) via Indian English, popularized by naval contact between the Japan and the British East India Company.
