Why does Brazil have the largest distribution of Japanese overseas population?

The reason is that 1895, Japan and Brazil concluded the Treaty of Business Friendship between Japan and Pakistan, and the two countries announced the formal establishment of diplomatic relations. After that, the Japanese and Pakistani governments negotiated and began to plan an organized Brazilian immigration plan. At the beginning of the 20th century, Brazil was vast and sparsely populated. In order to develop its economy, it recruited immigrants from other countries, so many Japanese took their families across the ocean.

1908 June 18, the first immigrant ship "Lihu Maru" arrived in Santos port, Brazil, with 78/kloc-0 Japanese immigrants on board, who then moved to the coffee garden in Sao Paulo. By 1939, before the outbreak of World War II, Japan exported more than 200,000 people to Brazil. After five generations of reproduction, the number of Japanese in Brazil has reached 1.5 million, of which 70% live in Sao Paulo and 12% live in Parana.

Brazil experienced a great change in the19th century, and slavery was abolished, which made many banana, tobacco and other plantations in Brazil face a huge labor shortage. The Brazilian Federation passed a law in 1892, which opened the right of Japanese and China people to settle in Brazil. At that time, densely populated East Asia was undoubtedly the best choice for Brazil to find labor.

Facing the invitation from Brazil, the people of China at that time were indifferent, and Brazil's demand that all immigrants become Brazilian citizens was obviously unacceptable to the Qing government at that time. However, due to the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the whole society was disrupted and reorganized, many people lost their jobs, and there was an urgent need for labor transfer.

In this case, the Japanese accepted the invitation of Brazil, and soon began to organize China people to settle in Brazil. It was not until the outbreak of World War II that the trend of Japanese emigration to Brazil gradually disappeared. From 1908 to 1942, nearly190 thousand Japanese came to live in Brazil, and most of them became workers in Brazilian plantations.

After more than half a century of reproduction, there are now more than 654.38+600 million Japanese descendants living in Brazil. It occupies an important position in Brazil. Not only in Brazil, but also in Latin America. In Argentina, the number of Japanese exceeds 50,000, and many cities have special Japanese communities.

In Peru, there is even a Japanese president Alberto Fujimori. Due to the hard-working and simple character of the Japanese themselves, although it was very hard when they first came to Latin America, today's Japanese descendants have basically become the upper-middle class in Latin America.

Extended data:

As of 20 1 9,65438+10,1,the total population of Japan was124,776,364, a decrease of 433,239 compared with the same period of 20 18, with a continuous decrease of1. In 20 18, the number of babies born in Japan was 918,000, which was less than one million for three consecutive years. Except Tokyo Circle (including Tokyo and its surrounding saitama, Chiba Prefecture and Kanagawa Prefecture) and Okinawa, the population of all parts of Japan is declining.

Among them, the population of Nagoya Circle (Aichi Prefecture, Mie Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture) and Kansai Circle (Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture, Nara Prefecture and Hyogo Prefecture) decreased the most. Compared with 20 17, the number of foreigners registered as residents in Japan increased by 169543, totaling 2.667 199. As of 20 19, 1, the main ethnic group in Japan is the Yamato ethnic group, and the Ainu people in Hokkaido have about16,000 people.

Japan's ethnic composition is relatively simple, but it can't be simply called a "single nation state". The reason for this is that in addition to the well-known "Yamato nation", there are Ainu people and Ryukyu people with unique national characteristics on the Japanese archipelago.

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