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Japanese Brazilians

Japanese Brazilians
  • Nipo-brasileiros
  • 日系ブラジル人
Total population

56,217 Japanese nationals

1,600,000 (estimated) Brazilians of Japanese descent
~1% of Brazil’s population
Regions with significant populations
Japan:
   275,000 (estimated) Japanese-Brazilians in Japan
~0.1-0.2% of Japan’s population, concentrated along the Taiheiyō Belt, in Chūbu, Kantō and Kansai
Languages
Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese
Religion

Predominantly:
Roman Catholicism
Minority:

Buddhism and Shintoism
Japanese new religions,
Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
Other nikkei groups (mainly those from
Latin America
and Japanese Americans), Japanese,
Latin Americans in Japan

56,217 Japanese nationals

Predominantly:
Roman Catholicism
Minority:

Japanese Brazilians (日系ブラジル人 Nikkei Burajiru-jin?, nipo-brasileiro, pronounced in Portuguese: [ˌnʲipobɾaziˈlejɾu]) are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry, or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil.

The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan. According to the IBGE, as of 2009 there were approximately 1.6 million people of Japanese descent in Brazil.

Between the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, coffee was the main export product of Brazil. At first, Brazilian farmers used African slave labour in the coffee plantations, but in 1850, the slave traffic was abolished in Brazil. To solve the labour shortage, the Brazilian elite decided to attract European immigrants to work on the coffee plantations. This also supported the government's push toward "Whitening" the country. The hope was that through procreation that the large African and Native American groups would be eliminated or reduced. The government and farmers offered to pay European immigrants' passage. The plan encouraged millions of Europeans, most of them Italians, to migrate to Brazil. However, once in Brazil, the immigrants received very low salaries and worked in poor conditions, similar to the conditions faced by the African slaves, including long working hours and frequent ill-treatment by their bosses. Because of this, in 1902, Italy enacted Decree Prinetti, prohibiting subsidized immigration to Brazil.


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