The first Japanese to immigrate to America.

Brazil and Japan, one in South America and the other in the northern hemisphere, have no intersection at all, let alone any historical origin. Surprisingly, however, there are millions of Japanese in Brazil, and they have become a member of Brazilian society? Majority? . What caused the Japanese to leave their homes and there were so many Japanese in Brazil in the southern hemisphere?

Map of Brazil

As early as the beginning of the 20th century, Japan began the process of emigrating to Brazil. The reason for this wave of immigration is actually the new large-scale immigration activities in Japan at the end of 19. After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, with the rapid development of domestic capitalism and the enhancement of military strength, the bottom farmers in Japan began to become extremely poor and even bankrupt.

Subsequently, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Japanese government began to launch a large-scale war of foreign aggression. In order to search for war resources, Japan's domestic policies have become more repressive, and most of the people at the bottom of Japan who have been further squeezed are in dire straits.

Japan's small territory, lack of resources, unable to survive the Japanese forced to live overseas, seeking survival. At that time, Brazil was in the stage of economic development, and large-scale coffee cultivation in S? o Paulo required a lot of labor. In addition, the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888 further led to a shortage of labor, and Brazil began to try to introduce labor. The two sides hit it off, randomly, and the Japanese began to immigrate to Brazil on a large scale.

Japanese women who immigrated to Brazil

According to statistics, from 1908 to 192 1, the number of Japanese immigrants to Brazil increased by more than 30,000. However, in 192 1, the Brazilian government cancelled the travel allowance for Japanese immigrants on the grounds that they were unwilling to settle in the manor. This made it impossible for those poor farmers to continue to immigrate to Brazil, and the first phase of immigration entered a downturn.

However, with the arrival of 1923, Japanese society fell into an economic crisis until World War II, when the Great Kanto Earthquake 1923 occurred, which led to a rapid rise in the unemployment rate in Japan. In this extremely unstable social environment, the Japanese government began to encourage domestic people to emigrate overseas. So in the next 12 years, the total population of Japanese immigrants to Brazil actually reached140,000.

Japanese on the streets of Brazil

In the second stage, Japanese immigrants were no longer confined to the poor peasants at the bottom. In Brazil, they no longer engage in independent coffee plantations. Some Japanese formed immigrant groups, and they went to Amazon and other parts of Brazil. In order to attract immigrants to settle in Brazil, the Brazilian government will give these overseas immigrants land. Brazilian locals have also set up some immigration agencies to sell land to these Japanese immigrants.

Since then, the Japanese have cultivated land in these places and managed their own manors. However, since 1935, the Brazilian government has also begun to limit the number of Japanese immigrants to Brazil every year; Coupled with the outbreak of World War II, the number of Japanese immigrants to Brazil gradually decreased, even completely terminated before the end of the war.

Japanese architecture in Brazil

It was not until the end of World War II that the wave of Japanese immigrants to Brazil officially entered the third stage. From 1953 to 1962, the immigration tide was staged again. This time, some Japanese immigrants brought great wealth, some were invited by the Brazilian government to invest, and some were managers and technicians who went to Brazil and Japan to set up factories.

Since there are enough Japanese immigrants, and Brazil, which has a rapidly growing population, also has enough labor, the Brazilian government has been strict in managing Japanese immigrants since 1968. Immigrants must have a college degree or pay $5,000 to enter Brazil.

Since then, fewer and fewer Japanese immigrants go to Brazil every year. However, descendants of former Japanese immigrants have been distributed all over Brazil, forming a huge Japanese descendant society in South America, which is why there are so many Japanese descendants in Brazil.