Japanese Brazilians
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| Total population | |
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56,217 Japanese nationals 1,600,000 (estimated) Brazilians of Japanese descent~1% of Brazil’s population |
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| 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 |
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| Languages | |
| Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese | |
| Religion | |
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Predominantly: Japanese new religions, Protestantism |
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| 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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