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  2. Japanese immigration in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Japanese postage stamp in 1958. Poster advertising the immigration of Japanese to Brazil and Peru.. At the beginning of the 20th century, Japan was overpopulated. [16] The country had been isolated from the world during the 265 years of the Edo period (Tokugawa shogunate), with no wars, epidemics from outside or emigration.

  3. Japanese Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    Japanese immigration to Brazil officially began on June 18, 1908, when the ship Kasato Maru docked at Porto de Santos, bringing 781 Japanese workers to the coffee plantations in the São Paulo state countryside. For this reason, June 18 was established as the national day of Japanese immigration.

  4. Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The main reason for Japanese immigration in Brazil, which began in the 20th century, was to supply a demand for foreign labor in the coffee plantations. At the time, Japan's high population growth made it difficult for it to provide jobs for its entire inhabitants.

  5. Japanese diaspora - Wikipedia

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    The most immigrants to come in one year peaked in 1933 at 24,000, but restrictions due to ever growing anti-Japanese sentiment caused it to die down and then eventually halt at the start of World War II. Japanese immigration into Brazil actually saw continued traffic after it resumed in 1951.

  6. Brazilians in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The legislation of 1990 was intended to select immigrants who entered Japan, giving a clear preference for Japanese descendants from South America, especially Brazil. These people were lured to Japan to work in areas that the Japanese refused (the so-called "three K": Kitsui, Kitanai and Kiken – dirty, dangerous and demeaning). [7] [9] Many ...

  7. Asian Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Until the 1950s, more than 250 thousand Japanese immigrated to Brazil. Currently, the Japanese-Brazilian population is estimated at 2.1 million people. It is the largest ethnic Japanese population outside Japan, followed closely by the Japanese community in the United States. Other East ...

  8. Issei - Wikipedia

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    The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil aboard the Kassato Maru in 1908. [1] They referred to themselves as issei and became known as Nipo-Brasileiros.. Issei (一世, "first generation") are Japanese immigrants to countries in North America and South America.

  9. Yonsei (Japanese diaspora) - Wikipedia

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    Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan, numbering an estimate of more than 1.5 million (including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity). [7] The Yonsei Japanese Brazilians are a statistically significant component of that ethnic minority in that South American nation, comprising 12.95% of the Japanese Brazilian population in 1987.