Koizumi gets emotional in Brazil

[Apollo]

Why is that there are so many Japanese in Brazil ? Any specific reasons

Brazil received more Japanese immigrants than other Latin American countries. Between 1,300,000 and 1,500,000 people of Japanese origin live in Brazil.

The first Japanese immigrants to Brazil were those who went in 1908.
When Brazil lacked workforces for farms, especially for coffee, and received European and Japanese immigrants to cover such needs.
Brazil saw the Japanese as a promising provider of workforce, which matched Japanese government's intention to enlarge its presence in the world, and many Japanese families wanted to have a prosperous life abroad. Thousands of Japanese farmers wanted to go to Brazil to get rid of the poverty and make some money by working arduously for a couple of years, like guest-workers. More and more Japanese workers set out toward Sao Paulo whose number reached 20,686 between 1918 and 1925.

Later, the Japanese farmers became more and more independent, having their own crops etc..

Now the Japanese are 4th generation in Brazil.

[bexchurnside]

Brazil received more Japanese immigrants than other Latin American countries. Between 1,300,000 and 1,500,000 people of Japanese origin live in Brazil.
The first Japanese immigrants to Brazil were those who went in 1908.
When Brazil lacked workforces for farms, especially for coffee, and received European and Japanese immigrants to cover such needs.
Brazil saw the Japanese as a promising provider of workforce, which matched Japanese government's intention to enlarge its presence in the world, and many Japanese families wanted to have a prosperous life abroad. Thousands of Japanese farmers wanted to go to Brazil to get rid of the poverty and make some money by working arduously for a couple of years, like guest-workers. More and more Japanese workers set out toward Sao Paulo whose number reached 20,686 between 1918 and 1925.
Later, the Japanese farmers became more and more independent, having their own crops etc..
Now the Japanese are 4th generation in Brazil.

Wow! 4th generation! But wouldn't they intermarry by then? How are Japanese men accepted as husbands by the latino Brazillian women?

[jonathancameron]

Wow! 4th generation! But wouldn't they intermarry by then? How are Japanese men accepted as husbands by the latino Brazillian women?

If you have Japanese nationality, and unlike many American Nikkei, have nationality even up to 4th generation unlike the US or Canada, since Japan is a developed nation and Brazil is not. Those with passports repatriating to Japan claiming to be Japanese at the work place get a little tougher time as they are told it is their duty as a Japanese national to learn the actual language to full fluency even more so than the Nikkei non Japanese Brazilians.

I love it, at least as a full blooded caucasian, they only say Sugoi, and tell me how wonderful my Japanese is. Maybe I will go to Japan and if I told some Japanese that if I would care to learn it, they have no excuse not to, perhaps like this:

こら！豚汁！早く徹底的に日本語を学ぶべきだ！この白 人の方でも貴方達よりも飛びぬいて日本語が上手だ！こ ら！日本人だろう、日本語習わないと恥ずかしいぞ！

Butajiru, is the derogatory term used in Japan against Brazillian Nikkei workers there. Maybe they will give me work there in the factories to get them fired up to learn Japanese seeing some caucasian like me is learning it.

When I see Japanese who don't speak Japanese and are nationals of that country, I love bugging them by saying 何で日本人なのに日本語が� んまり出来ないの。 And the occasional time I do lose, there really is no glory for them, as I can say, 当たり前だろ、私は丸々白人だも。

I am having much fun at getting some insights into understanding Japanese mentality and playing with their heads a little.

[craftsman]

jonathancameron, I do believe you've started having conversations with yourself again.

(To anyone who is unaware - bexchurnside and jonathancameron is the same barmy poster)

[w1ngzer0]

Brazil received more Japanese immigrants than other Latin American countries. Between 1,300,000 and 1,500,000 people of Japanese origin live in Brazil.
The first Japanese immigrants to Brazil were those who went in 1908.
When Brazil lacked workforces for farms, especially for coffee, and received European and Japanese immigrants to cover such needs.
Brazil saw the Japanese as a promising provider of workforce, which matched Japanese government's intention to enlarge its presence in the world, and many Japanese families wanted to have a prosperous life abroad. Thousands of Japanese farmers wanted to go to Brazil to get rid of the poverty and make some money by working arduously for a couple of years, like guest-workers. More and more Japanese workers set out toward Sao Paulo whose number reached 20,686 between 1918 and 1925.
Later, the Japanese farmers became more and more independent, having their own crops etc..
Now the Japanese are 4th generation in Brazil.

awesome. talk about a melting pot down there.

[caster51]

Brazil is "the closest to my heart. All the people who have persevered under different weather, language, food and customs welcomed the prime minister of Japan," Koizumi recalled, pausing for a moment to wipe his tears.

I found this nice song
http://www.nikkeyshimbun.com.br/imag...onesa16bit.mp3


http://www.nikkeyshimbun.com.br/toku...lumn-yumi.html

Btw Mr.Juniti saito became a supreme commander of brasilian air force(Tenente Brigadeiro-do-Ar e Comandante da Aeronautica)
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/yoshijiwada/23124185.html

[tokapi]

The first Japanese immigrants to Brazil were those who went in 1908.

2005 NHK television drama ハルとナツ ( Haru e Natsu ) retold 1 such journey.

* In 1934, Haru and her family emigrated from Hokkaido to Brazil.

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Haru_to_Natsu

[caster51]

tokapi
this is so interesting though it is sad
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8B%...81%A1%E7%B5%84
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%87%...80%A3%E7%9B%9F
because there was no information...