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In 2022, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that there were 2 million people of Japanese origin in Brazil, but only 47,472 had Japanese nationality. [2] The Japanese-origin population in Brazil is extremely urban. Whereas at the beginning of immigration almost all Japanese were in rural areas, by 1958, 55.1% were already in urban centers.
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).
People born in Japan and living in Brazil are also considered Japanese-Brazilians. This process began on June 18, 1908, when the ship Kasato Maru arrived in the country bringing 781 workers to farms in the interior of São Paulo. Consequently, June 18 was established as the national day of Japanese immigration. [12]
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 ]
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.
Brazil is home to the largest ethnic Japanese population outside Japan, numbering an estimated more than 1.5 million (including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity), [4] more than that of the 1.2 million in the United States. [5] The issei Japanese Brazilians are an important part of Asian ethnic minorities in Brazil.
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.
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]