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In 1941, the Brazilian Minister of Justice, Francisco Campos, defended the ban on admission of 400 Japanese immigrants in São Paulo and wrote: "their despicable standard of living is a brutal competition with the country's worker; their selfishness, their bad faith, their refractory character, make them a huge ethnic and cultural cyst located ...
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.
This is a list of Japanese Brazilians, that is, notable people of Japanese ancestry born or raised in Brazil. Japanese immigration to Brazil started in 1908 with the arrival of the Kasato Maru . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
In 2018, Brazil exported $4.46B to Japan, while Japan exported $4.12B to Brazil. [20] Though the share of Japan in Brazil's exports and Brazilian imports in Japan has dropped about 1.1%, [19] during the last 23 years the exports of Japan to Brazil have increased at an annualized rate of 1.79%. [20]
It was inaugurated on June 18, 1978, by the Brazilian Society of Japanese Culture to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Japanese immigration to Brazil and has more than 97,000 historical items in its collection, including photos, films and videos.
The Taisho School, Brazil's first Japanese language school, opened in 1915 in São Paulo. [10] In the 1980s, São Paulo Japanese supplementary schools were larger than those in other communities. In 1992 the São Paulo Metropolitan Area had 95 Japanese schools, and the schools in the city limits of São Paulo had 6,916 students. [9]
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.
There is a significant community of Brazilians in Japan, consisting largely but not exclusively of Brazilians of Japanese descent.Brazilians with Japanese descent are commonly known as Nikkei Brazilians [6] or Brazilian Japanese people (Portuguese: brasilo-japoneses, Japanese: ブラジル系日本人, burajiru kei nihonjin).