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Japanese education in Brazil was modeled after education systems in Japan, and schools in Japanese communities in Brazil received funding directly from the Japanese government. [28] By 1933, there were 140,000–150,000 Japanese Brazilians, which was by far the largest Japanese population in any Latin American country.
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.
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 Japanese Brazilians began to immigrate. The influx of Japanese descendants from Brazil to Japan was and continues to be large.
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.
The city has one Japanese international day school, the Escola Japonesa de São Paulo ("São Paulo Japanese School"), located in Vila Prel , Capão Redondo, Subprefecture of Campo Limpo. [7] The school opened on August 14, 1967. [8] As of 2003, around 33% of the Japanese supplementary schools in southern Brazil are in the city of São Paulo.
Many of them also intermarried with the local Filipina women (including those of pure or mixed Chinese and Spanish descent), thus forming the new Japanese-Mestizo community. [28] In the 16th and 17th centuries, thousands of traders from Japan also migrated to the Philippines and assimilated into the local population. [29]
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In 1895, Brazil and Japan signed a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation. [4] In 1897, diplomatic missions were opened in each nations capitals, respectively. In June 1908, a ship from Japan carrying 790 Japanese migrants arrived to Brazil aboard the Kasato Maru; the first of many Japanese migrants to arrive to Brazil. Between 1908 and ...