Why Brazil has so many Japanese

Over the course of decades, hundreds of thousands of Japanese decided to move to Brazil, and today there are more than 2 million Japanese-Brazilians in the country. In fact, Brazil actually has the largest population of Japanese outside of Japan. So, why did this happen?

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[WilliamSantos-cvrr]

There is a mistake at 10:32. It was 310 thousand Brazilian citizens living in Japan at the time.

[anacarolinasm]

Brasil also have the biggest black community out off africa, and Lebanese community even bigger than Lebanon .

[sanjaymoncrieffe]

I enjoyed how you narrated the video. I could hear your natural cadence in YOUR voice. Really loved it. Big up from a Jamaican 🇯🇲 living in Brazil 🇧🇷

I'd very much like a video the same occurrence of Asians going to Jamaica to work as endentured slaves and I'd like to know if tgere were any laws to persecute or even benefit them based of race.

Anyways, take care, my g.

[rafaelito]

Good Job, your video is very interesting. I have some information to share. I'm from third generation of japanese decendents in Brazil. I live in a city that was founded by England and build by the japanese comunity who bought a large farm and became the second large japanese community after sao paulo. The neighbour city was founded by dutch imigrants and there are another two major cities in my state that was colonized by the ukranians and polish. There were over 53 nationalities that imigrate only to my state during that time, the immigrants arrivied in the santos port and distribuited all over the country side. There is a imigration museum in sao paulo that host all the documentation of that period, you can see all the information from foreigners families members, their origin city and their destination and employer in Brazil. My family history is also registered in that documents, my grand father came from a military family in yokohama and came to Brazil to seek better job to return to Japan later, but they could never come back. There is a movie about japanese imigration that was filmed in my city, '' GAIJIN " and GAIJIN 2". Maybe it would be interesting for your reserch. Brazil is a very mixed culture country, we have whole cities with germanic architeture in south region and italian neighbourhoods in sao paulo. My father is half japanese and married with my mother who is half portuguese and jewish spanish. My cousings have japanese features with blond hair, they are half japanese and dutch.

[wallybartfay]

Interesting historical account. Immigrant Protection Act and other laws and policies were central to protecting the rights of immigrants.

[skyedelimit]

Never would have thought of it. I always thought the largest Japanese population outside of Japan was in Hawaii.

[Kawayoporu]

TO THE AMERICAN FOLKS, by the way Americans I find 4 songs that sang shockingly in poortuguese singing in an airline commercial they made an Urashima Taro weird strangely uncommon unusual singing "Saved a turtle and as an award, took him to Brazil For the enchanted kingdom" and another song singing unusually off "Brasil e japao/Nippon" in the late 60s and in the 2000s in 2008 there was also unusual couple more songs a third song saying "Keika é brasil é Japao" and last "Banzai brasil Japan brasil Japan" or "brasileiro Japanese" so I have a badly curiosity question, DO WE HAVE SONGS ABOUT America & Japan OR ABOUT Japanese American I WANNA KNOW, BECAUSE WHERE ARE THESE SONGS ON A FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN USA AND JAPAN, BUT WHY 4 SONGS ON BAZILLY AND JAPAN, BUT NOT AMERICA AND JAPAN I DIDN'T FIND YET IF ANYBODY KNOW, PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THERE ARE SONGS OF AMERICA AND JAPAN????

I WANNA BADLY HEAR SONGS OF AMERICA AND JAPAN??

I also sadly not find a song singing Canada and Japan yet either!

Desperate.

[Kawayoporu]

Bizarre of how could brazil be having many there when there were, already more Japanese people came after America, we always thought be larger in the United States or Canada, Japanese don't know brazil very much and know 0 portuguese, but prefer America being rich then brazil, it is not a match to be million there, but just a small number like the Japanese people in spanish speaking nation ones.

[Kawayoporu]

Also in brazil the chinese people were outnumbered both koreans and Japanese when the chinese came to brazil in 1812 I've read, because every country have chinese people outnumber the Japanese and koreans, it is off Japanese as 2 million in brazil which is not making any sense, not even 1.4 million or 1, 900, 000, because there should been just less then total of 242, 543 Japanese people in brazil after moving there less wave in 1909 - 1942 and 1965 - 1973, but more Japanese were in the USA 29 years behind brazil, due to many speak English and many can't speak latin languages well as well they were originally supposed to make money and go back to Japan from brazil right?

Why is in America not be the one be 2 million Japanese when the Japanese people from Japan came to the United States or why is the Japanese population not be over 2 million in USA to outnumber ones in brazil when it seemed it should have only been thousands of Japanese like for example the Japanese in mexico, peru, argentina, cuba etc right?

Many Japanese speak English, I read both America and brazil have in common restricted the Japanese immigration, USA had it once and brazil had it twice.

The fact the Japanese people who came from Japan who moved to USA in the 1880s had grown to thousands by 1900 when saying "People from Japan began migrating to the US in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the Meiji Restoration in 1868. These early Issei immigrants came primarily from small towns and rural areas in the southern Japanese prefectures of Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Kumamoto, and Fukuoka[6] and most of them settled in either Hawaii or along the West Coast. The Japanese population in the United States grew from 148 in 1880 (mostly students) to 2, 039 in 1890 and 24, 326 by 1900.", but brazil had 0 Japanese in 1880 - 1900 until in 1909 carrying only hundreds or 970 of them at the start, both countries by ship.

When it reached to the mid 20th century, the Japanese were still more Japanese in the English country USA then the portuguese speaking country brazil when many Japanese taught English more, but not portuguese, it say there were 258, 000 in USA, but 25, 000 in brazil then when saying "The official census of 1940s counts only 1, 550 Japanese nationals in the country(in mexico), the overwhelming majority men, although other studies put the number higher, as many as over 6, 000. Even with the 6, 000 figure, it pales against the number of Japanese in other countries in the Americas at the time such as the United States (285, 000), Brazil (205, 000), Canada (22, 000) and Peru (18, 000) .", so I think Canada should have also been having more Japanese then brazil too, just like Canada has more Japanese then Japanese in peru, since Canada and USA are close 3 years apart to have many Japanese immigrants in both huge English countries like one Japanese Nikkei told me he wishes to be born in Canada, but not brazil when he said brazil is full of corruption, it was interesting that he would liked to be born in Canada.

USA has banned Japanese immigration, but a few token Japanese in those 40 years which the immigration still come few thousands then dozen thousands before so as it says it's not banned as 0 Japanese coming to US in the 1930s when it said "Japanese immigration to the United States between 1931 and 1950 only totaled 3, 503 which is strikingly low compared to the totals of 46, 250 people in 1951–1960, 39, 988 in 1961–70, 49, 775 in 1971–80, 47, 085 in 1981–90, and 67, 942 in 1991–2000.", but in brazil it was banned for 10 years as 0 I think which I think it was halted like in mexico did and other spanish speaking countries, but then once, again, but unlike the previous immigration totaled 190, 000, lower Japanese immigration came there until 1973 as Japan has finally ended Japanese going to brazil anymore a Japanese guy told me years ago as it said "Most of the immigrants were over 60 years old, because the Japanese immigration to Brazil has ended since the mid-20th century." this would of been still hundred thousands of Japanese in brazil today kind of exactly right?

Also both USA and brazil during the war abused the Japanese people, also some killed them in both countries making both countries losing some Japanese population who didn't get a full life, someone said 800 Japanese were killed in internment camps and maybe in brazil in the same number when they had to stand by the corridor of death, even this one Japanese bad guy who also killed Japanese living in brazil who believe Japan didn't won after brazilian police/authorities did attack the Japanese communities or confiscated their stuff in the war, maybe 900 killed or few thousands died from malaria sadly and had similar internment camps, unlike shindo renmei who killed 23 of them of his ethnicity kind, fortunately there is no other bad Japanese men killing Japanese Americans too, but both countries decades later gets apologized by both governments for abuse.

Like I look at the spanish countries of latin America, each have smaller populations, thousands of them only, but in brazil is very off, it seems it supposed to be a thousands as the ones in peru, I didn't think it be possible to be over a million so I think America should been the only country outside Japan or Asia to have a million Japanese people and the descendants be the largest in the world or USA have the second largest Japanese population after Japan right?

Also the Japanese people who moved to brazil in the early 20th and mid 20th century are all dead now from old age, even some have did move back to Japan.

I didn't think brazil would have a million, also it said "However, the overall Japanese population in Brazil is shrinking, secondary to a decreased birth rate and an aging population; return immigration to Japan" Japanese populations shrinking they say made it less as thousands almost into dozen thousands like the Japanese in argentina, but been a small scale in number in brazil too it looks to be, because Japanese people always think of moving to America usually and do not know brazil very much, but seeing so much America just like how indians, vietnamese or taiwanee people for example right?

Like it said many Japanese learn how to speak English in Japan, but not portuguese or spanish, so I remember people say there are a lot of Japanese in America then Canada, but I never think brazil have Japanese people as I guess I'd thought then there were 0 or small population of Japanese in brazil, because brazil is not a country like we can't communicate in English.

In 2018 there was also read "As of 2018, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported the 5 countries with the highest number of Japanese expatriates as the United States (426, 206), China (124, 162), Australia (97, 223), Thailand (72, 754) and Canada (70, 025)." no brazil on the top 5, but it is still odd Canada did not have more Japanese going to Canada then china, also poor Australia too, since they are close with Japan, I also wouldn't mind if Australia host the largest Japanese population in the world outside Japan when it does say it had the largest Japanese cemetery outside Japan, but I don't know why the cemetery, but not the Japanese people alive be 2 million there in Australia if USA too have 2 million today with Canada be having just hundred thousands interestingly and brazil be having 97, 000 Japanese it had more then argentina have Japanese for another example rather Australia had that small, but Australia has more Japanese people then thailand.

A Japanese user has told me weeks ago that in the future USA would say it be home to the largest Japanese population in the world outside Japan, but said like I have said Japanese in brazil are moving back to Japan or moving to North America, but it looks like it should been now like I said there are more Japanese people move to America in the 1880s way before then early 20th century brazil in the very late 1900s.

Also china host the largest korean population in the world outside korea and thailand host the largest chinese population in the world outside china, the second chinese population should been in brazil outside Asia, because I read the chinese went to brazil in 1812 and later to USA in 1820, but the Japanese would of been much larger in USA then the korean population came there after the Japanese, also less vietnamese, thais or filipinos be much smaller population then the Japanese too, just like in Europe there were more Japanese then koreans there, more Japanese in USA then koreans and America have more Japanese then brazil it looks exactly should be, neh?