When the Land of the Rising Sun gradually opened up to the West, Japanese people left their country to settle elsewhere. It has been reported that 60% of Japanese living abroad are mainly concentrated in one country, Brazil.
Until 1853, Japan prohibited the entry of foreigners on its soil, while its nationals could not leave the country on pain of death. Today, things are somewhat different, and even if the Japanese are attached to their native land, they are still 2.5 million to live in another country.
If 40% of this population is distributed in the world, the 60% of exiled Japanese are mainly in Brazil. Why Brazil? In the past, Japanese people who sought new land to cultivate were “handicapped” by immigration restriction laws in the United States and Australia who owned cultivable farmland.
Brazil was therefore the ideal place for its vast agricultural land and not impacted by immigration regulations. Between 1925 and 1930, 60,000 Japanese found a new home. Then, from the following year until 1935, nearly 70,000 of them settled in Brazil.
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