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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).
The Japanese Brazilian community was strongly marked by restrictive measures when Brazil declared war against Japan in August 1942. Japanese Brazilians could not travel the country without safe conduct issued by the police; over 200 Japanese schools were closed and radio equipment was seized to prevent transmissions on short wave from Japan ...
Dekasegi (Portuguese: decassegui, decasségui, , [dekɐˈsɛgi]) is a term that is used in Latin America to refer to people, primarily Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Peruvians, who have migrated to Japan, having taken advantage of Japanese citizenship or nisei visa and immigration laws to work short-term in Japan.
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.
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.
The term Nikkei has multiple and diverse meanings depending on situations, places, and environments. ... Japanese immigration into Brazil actually saw continued ...
The Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) is the sign language used by deaf people in Brazilian urban centers [29] and legally recognized as a means of communication and expression. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] It is derived both from an autochthonous sign language, which is native to the region or territory in which it lives, and from French sign language ...
A poster used in Japan to attract immigrants to Brazil. It reads: "Let's go to South America (Brazil highlighted) with your entire family." Although the earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants left Japan centuries ago, and a later group settled in Mexico in 1897, [1] today's largest populations of Japanese immigrants and their descendants are concentrated in four countries: Brazil (2 ...