26 Facts About Japanese Brazilians

Japanese Brazilians are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil or Japanese people of Brazilian ancestry.

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

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

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

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

Japanese Brazilians became divided amongst themselves, and some even turned to performing terrorist acts on Japanese farmers who were employed by Brazilian farmers.

Japanese Brazilians appeared as undesirable immigrants within the "whitening" and assimilationist policy of the Brazilian government.

In 1941, the Brazilian Minister of Justice, Francisco Campos, defended the ban on admission of 400 Japanese Brazilians 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".

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

Japanese Brazilians were prohibited from driving motor vehicles, buses or trucks on their property.

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

Japanese Brazilians were arrested for "suspicious activity" when they were in artistic meetings or picnics.

Japanese Brazilians immigrants appeared to the Brazilian government as undesirable and non-assimilable immigrants.

The Japanese Brazilians 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 Brazilians government in the process of migration.

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

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

Japanese Brazilians usually speak Japanese more often when they live along with a first generation relative.

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

Many Japanese Brazilians went to Japan as contract workers due to economic and political problems in Brazil, and they were termed "Dekasegi".

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

In Japan, many Japanese Brazilians suffer prejudice because they do not know how to speak Japanese fluently.

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

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

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

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