Japanese Chilean (日系チリ人, Nikkei Chiri-jin, Spanish: Japonés Chileno or Nipo-chileno) is a Chilean with ethnic origin from Japan. The first Japanese in Chile were 126 immigrants hired to work in the mining industry in 1903. As of 2010, Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimated there to be a total of roughly 2,600 Japanese people living in Chile. Among them were 1,108 temporary residents, 504 permanent residents, and about another thousand locally born descendants.