Why were there so many Japanese in South America throughout history?

To put it simply, a hundred years ago, South America carried out an independence movement, and each country basically achieved formal independence.

However, South American countries, especially Brazil, lack population and a serious shortage of labor force.

Therefore, in addition to introducing measures to encourage the arrival of immigrants from various countries, governments in South America at that time also sent invitations to various countries, asking them to send immigrants to live there.

Among them was Japan. At that time, Japan’s population was already quite large, and the contradiction between man and land was quite prominent. So after receiving the invitation, they were very happy to send a large number of immigrants there. This is how a large number of Japanese people in South America are now The origins of the diaspora.

Moreover, why were all places in eastern and southern China, including Hong Kong, occupied during World War II, but not Macau? In fact, it has something to do with this.

Because Brazil was still largely controlled by Portugal at that time, and Portugal threatened Japan that if it occupied Macau, they would repatriate all Japanese in Brazil, which frightened the Japanese. Macau was saved from being occupied.

The above is something I have learned before, I hope it will be helpful to you.