Japanese seldom immigrate. How do 654.38+0.6 million people live in Brazil?

Friends who are familiar with Japan know that Japan is a relatively conservative island country with a very closed geographical position. In addition, Japan was deeply influenced by China culture, which made Japan basically have no foreign exchanges before the Meiji Restoration. I only have contact with some countries in East Asia. This character still exists today. Japan is a developed country with the least immigration, and few Japanese live overseas. This is different from the Chinese. There are a large number of Chinese overseas, especially in Southeast Asia, Europe and America, and we can all find Chinatown where Chinese live together.

However, one area seems to be an exception, and that is Brazil. The Japanese in Brazil is almost the country with the largest number of overseas Japanese, and the number of Brazilian Japanese living here has reached 6.5438+0.6 million, which even affected the popular culture in Brazil. At the opening ceremony of Rio Olympic Games, we saw many displays with Japanese elements.

Brazil's economic development is actually very limited, and it can't be compared with the United States. Why do so many Japanese live in Brazil?

This is related to a special history.

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 he first came to Latin America, today's Japanese descendants have basically become the upper-middle class in Latin America.