19 Facts About Japanese Brazilian

At first, Japanese Brazilian farmers used African slave labour in the coffee plantations, but in 1850, the slave trade was abolished in Brazil.

End of feudalism in Japan generated great poverty in the rural population, so many Japanese Brazilian began to emigrate in search of better living conditions.

In 1907, the Brazilian and the Japanese governments signed a treaty permitting Japanese migration to Brazil.

The first Japanese Brazilian immigrants came to Brazil in 1908 on the Kasato Maru.

Many Japanese Brazilian immigrants purchased land in rural Brazil instead, having been forced to invest what little capital they had into land in order to someday make enough to return to Japan.

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Japanese Brazilian children born in Brazil were educated in schools founded by the Japanese Brazilian community.

In 1941, the Brazilian Minister of Justice, Francisco Campos, defended the ban on admission of 400 Japanese immigrants in Sao 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 in the richest regions of Brazil".

Japanese Brazilian community was strongly marked by restrictive measures when Brazil declared war against Japan in August 1942.

The goods of Japanese Brazilian companies were confiscated and several companies of Japanese Brazilian origin had interventions, including the newly founded Banco America do Sul.

Thousands of Japanese Brazilian immigrants were arrested or expelled from Brazil on suspicion of espionage.

The Japanese Brazilian were able to overcome the difficulties along the years and drastically improve their lives through hard work and education; this was facilitated by the involvement of the Japanese Brazilian government in the process of migration.

Japanese Brazilian immigrants brought sumo wrestling to Brazil, with the first tournament in the country organized in 1914.

Many of the Japanese Brazilian immigrants took classes of Portuguese and learned about the history of Brazil before migrating to the country.

Those who do not live with a Japanese Brazilian-born relative usually speak Portuguese more often.

In 1990, the Japanese Brazilian government authorized the legal entry of Japanese Brazilian and their descendants until the third generation in Japan.

Japanese Brazilian visited Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Parana, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro.

Japanese Brazilian broke the protocol of the Japanese Monarchy, which prohibits physical contact with people, and greeted the Brazilian people.

In some areas full-time Japanese Brazilian schools opened because no local schools existed in the vicinity of the Japanese Brazilian settlements.

In general, during that decade a Brazilian supplementary Japanese school had one or two teachers responsible for around 60 students.