Editing German diaspora (section)

===Asia===
In Japan, during the [[Meiji period]] (1868–1912), many Germans came to work in Japan as advisors to the new government. Despite Japan's isolationism and geographic distance, there have been a few [[:Category:German expatriates in Japan|Germans in Japan]], since Germany's and Japan's fairly parallel modernization made Germans ideal ''[[Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan|O-yatoi gaikokujin]]''. (See also [[Germany–Japan relations]])

In China, the German trading colony of [[Jiaozhou Bay]] in what is now [[Qingdao]] existed until 1914, and did not leave much more than breweries, including [[Tsingtao Brewery]]

In South Korea, there are [[Germans in Korea]].

{{citation needed span|text=Smaller numbers of ethnic Germans immigrated in the former Southeast Asian territories of [[Malaysia]] (British), [[Indonesia]] (Dutch) and the [[Philippines]] (American) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.|date=June 2009}}
In Indonesia, some of them became well-known figures in history, such as [[C.G.C. Reinwardt]] (founder and first director of [[Bogor Botanical Garden]]), [[Walter Spies]] (German of Russian origin, who became the artist that made [[Bali]] known to the world), and [[Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn]] (owner of a big plantation in the south of [[Bandung]] and dubbed "the [[Alexander von Humboldt|Humboldt]] of the East" because of his ethno-geographical notes).

Members of the German religious group known as [[Templers (religious believers)|Templers]] settled in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] in the late 19th century and lived there for several generations, but were expelled by the British from [[Mandatory Palestine]] during [[World War II]], due to pro-Nazi sympathies expressed by many of them.

Communist [[East Germany]] had relations with [[Vietnam]] and [[Uganda]] in Africa, but in these cases population movement went mostly to, not from, Germany. After the [[German reunification]], a large percentage of "guest workers" from Communist nations sent to East Germany returned to their home countries.

See also: [[German colonial empire]] and [[List of former German colonies]]