Japanese Emigration to Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID2844992
AuthorsJ F Normano (corresponding author)
Year1934
Volume7
Issue1
Pages42
Publication date1934-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2750689
OpenAlexW2313804150
LanguageEN
Citations received9

F ROM time to time the daily press reports some new facts concerning Japanese emigration to Brazil. Sensational journalists call attention to the Japanization of this South American country. The foreign political press emphasizes the political importance of Japanese emigration to Latin America, especially from the standpoint of the United States. Occasional travelers mention large numbers of Japanese in Brazil. German publications proclaim the existence of the Yellow Peril in Brazil. The Russian political press, on the basis of the same information, condemns Japanese imperialistic expansion. The purpose of the present study is to make a survey of facts concerning Japanese emigration to Brazil as far as existing materials and information allow. The intercourse between Spanish America and Japan is of old origin. It is amusing to remember that the Japanese were anxious, as long ago as the sixteenth century, to open New Spain for trade, that at the beginning of the eighteenth century the Spanish fleet touched regularly at the Japanese port of Uraga and that occasionally, at that period, Japan and Mexico exchanged missions and products.2 But even in modern history, Westernized Japan has until re

Archaeology · Demographic economics · Economics · Emigration · Geography · Political science · Brazilian History and Foreign Policy · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Literature, Culture, and Criticism

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