May I ask why there are so many Japanese immigrants in Brazil? What is the history of this immigration?

/kloc-In the middle and late 9th century, Portugal, which occupied the vast Brazilian colonies, urgently needed to develop the vast colonies to alleviate the increasingly serious financial crisis and revolution. However, Brazil, a vast country, needs a lot of population and labor to develop, while Portugal, as a small European country, does not have too many people to immigrate to Brazil to fill the gap. So the Portuguese first turned their attention to China.

The Portuguese are very much looking forward to the industrious people of China. They hoped to introduce 1 tens of thousands of Chinese to Brazil through the negotiations of the Qing government, and promised to give Chinese full citizenship after working for a certain number of years without discriminating against Chinese. The original intention of this proposal is good, and it is also conducive to alleviating the contradiction of "more people and less land" in the southeast coast of China. However, the ignorant Qing government rejected this proposal, thinking that the Portuguese had ulterior motives and might support overseas disorderly parties. In addition, the idea that China people can be driven by foreigners is extremely stubborn.

After many unsuccessful negotiations, the Portuguese gave up negotiations with China and turned to cooperate with Japan, another populous country in Asia. This proposal hit it off with the Meiji government in Japan. A large number of Japanese landless farmers came to South America across the ocean, and after many generations, a huge Japanese population was formed in Brazil and South America.