Acacoyahua

Acacoyagua Municipality one of the 122 municipalities of Chiapas, which in turn is one of the states of Mexico. As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 16, 814, up from 14,189 as of 2005. The vicinity is brilliant for being the vicinity in which the first organized Japanese immigrants settled in Mexico. In 1897, 35 preliminary colonists led with the aid of Enomoto Takeaki arrived to work on espresso farms. Making Mexico the first Latin American United States to acquire eastern immigrants.

Although the espresso undertaking failed, the colonists started out farming greens and plants. Over the subsequent 30 years, six more "waves" of migrants followed. As maximum of the migrants have been men, marriage with neighborhood girls and conversion to Roman Catholicism was common. Nikkei have come to be Municipal President, the primary being Juvencio Nishizama Cruz in 1954 and the trendy being Jose Martin Nomura Hernandez in 2005. The important garden in town has Japanese affects and there's a monument commemorating the Japanese migrants. In May 1997, Prince Akishino, Ambassador Teresuke Terada and individuals of the Japanese Navy visited the town to mark the hundred year anniversary of the advent of the first colonists.