Talking about the relationship between Brazil and Japan

There are many Japanese immigrants in South America, especially Brazil and Argentina.

Around the end of the Qing Dynasty, South American countries, especially Brazil, were sparsely populated, with insufficient population and a serious shortage of labor. In order to strengthen domestic development, the governments of South America at that time not only introduced measures to encourage immigrants from various countries, but also invited them to send immigrants to live in places including Japan. This is exactly what Japanese people who are worried about population expansion and land shortage want. Japan has specially built "Brazil Maru" and "Argentina Maru" as liners between Brazil and Japan. At present, there are still 3 million Japanese expatriates in Brazil. Japanese expatriates are quite influential in South America. This is the origin of a large number of Japanese expatriates in South America.

South Americans first met East Asian countries because of these immigrants and because of preconceived relations, they had the idea of talking about Japanese immigrants around them for the first time in Asia.

I don't know if you still remember Fujimori, the former president of Peru, who was a descendant of Japanese immigrants. They still retain their origins and family names and have not been assimilated. I was surprised when I first saw this name. Why would a South American country make a Japanese president? Actually, it is the relationship between immigrants.

It is worth mentioning that Brazil also sent an invitation to immigrate to China. However, at that time, the Qing court thought that Chinese people going to wild places had to change their nationality, which was similar to giving their children to others as child brides, which was a manifestation of humiliating the country, so they refused.

In addition, during World War II, Hong Kong fell, while Macau, which is separated by a river, was safe because of Brazil. Because Macao and Brazil were deeply influenced by Portugal at that time, when the Japanese army wanted to get their hands on Macao, Portugal warned Japan that "if you dare to touch our territory, I will be rude to you Brazilian immigrants", which frightened the Japanese, so the Japanese army stopped in Macao.