Why are there1400,000 Japanese in Brazil in South America?

20 14 During the World Cup in Brazil, we saw that there were nearly1400,000 Japanese Brazilians in Brazil. These Japanese Brazilians, wearing Japanese kimonos and waving Japanese flags, joined the Japanese fans from afar to cheer for the Japanese team and became a beautiful landscape in the World Cup. Nowadays, Japanese people are widely distributed in the streets of Brazil, and one percent of the residents in Brazil are Japanese, which makes Brazil the second largest Japanese country in the world. One reason why there are so many Japanese residents is immigration.

Geographically speaking, Brazil and Japan straddle two hemispheres, which can be said to be very far away, but there must be a great reason for allowing so many Japanese to cross the ocean to Brazil at that time. As the largest country in South America, Brazil has hundreds of millions of vast land, but its population is very scarce. Brazil was once a colony of Portugal and declared its independence from Portuguese rule in 1822. At that time, there were only a few million indigenous people in Brazil, and the labor force was seriously insufficient, so a large area of fertile land was left uncultivated, and the abolition of slavery led to an even greater shortage of labor force, so Brazil sought immigrants from all over the world.

Brazil had hoped to acquire European immigrants. However, due to the gold rush in the United States, Europeans simply looked down on this difficult place, so the Brazilian government shifted its target to the Qing Dynasty, the most populous East Asian country at that time. During the Reform Movement of 1898, Kang Youwei suggested to Emperor Guangxu to emigrate to Xiba to solve the problems of population explosion and famine in China. However, many officials of the Qing government still rejected Brazil with the idea that more people can fight. Just as the Brazilian emissary was returning home, he passed by Japan and saw the Japanese island country under construction during the Meiji Restoration.

The Meiji Restoration in Japan exploited farmers' land and money, which led to the bankruptcy of a large number of overwhelmed farmers, who had to leave the countryside and enter the city to make a living. At that time, Japan's urban economy had not yet risen, and it was difficult to digest a large number of farmers who went to the city to make a living, and social problems became increasingly contradictory. Just as the government was considering solving the local population contradiction through overseas immigration, it met a Brazilian emissary who wanted to attract immigrants. The two sides hit it off immediately, and then the news that they immigrated to Japan to get rich came out, so the real big immigration tide began.