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To: TobagoJack who wrote (97336)12/24/2012 11:16:59 PM
From: elmatador1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 219971
 
We took the Japanese, then the Japanese took Brazilians. One day, if we have to take them again we will do, Japanese Immigrants are very good people.

arquivoestado.sp.gov.br

During the 19th century Japan was overpopulated. There were no wars, epydemies and agriculture produced enough food.


Brazil needed population to counter balance the negroes that were reproducing a lot. Facing the possibility to become a Haiti or Jamaica, Brazil wanted the Europeans to come. US was doing well attracting Europeans.


Orientals, as we used the Portuguese term for Asians, were seen as a danger. Japan had fought wars with Russia and China (well they had to do away with that over population of the 19th century) and Brazil was afraid of a big Asian population.,

With the end of the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji era, Japan was opened to the outside, initiating modernization in agriculture. As a result of mechanization took the work of thousands of Japanese who were landless and jobless, living a life almost miserable. In the late nineteenth century Japan started to encourage emigration.


Today Brazil has the largest Japanese community in the world. Among them Sabrina Sato







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