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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.
From the end of the 1980s, there was a reversal of the migratory flow between Brazil and Japan, because, with the reflexes of the economic crisis of the 1980s, in addition to the consequences of the Collor Plan and Japan's demand for workforce, about 85 000 Japanese and descendants living in Brazil decided to try life in Japan between 1980 and ...
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.
Brazil has the largest population of Japanese descent outside Japan. [62] Japanese immigration to Brazil started on 18 June 1908, when the Japanese ship Kasato-Maru arrived in the Port of Santos , south of São Paulo , carrying the first 781 people to take advantage of a bilateral agreement promoting immigration.
Despite their Japanese appearance and heritage, many Japanese Brazilians in Japan are culturally very Brazilian, often only speaking Brazilian Portuguese, and are treated as foreigners. [3] Academic studies [citation needed] report that many Japanese Brazilians felt (and were often treated as) Japanese in Brazil. But when they move to Japan ...
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The museum is located inside the Bunkyo building, which was erected as part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Japanese immigration in Brazil. The site covers a total of 17,000 m 2 and the building has 9 floors divided into the secretariat (first floor), the Bunkyo Youth Committee (1st floor), the office and library of the museum ...