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The first wave of Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil on the ship Kasato Maru. After a difficult journey, they landed at the port of Santos and came to the Inn of Immigrants in São Paulo [2] mainly to work on coffee farms. [3] [4] One of the major problems Japanese migrants experienced in Brazil was the difference in food.
In 2018, Brazil exported $4.46B to Japan, while Japan exported $4.12B to Brazil. [20] Though the share of Japan in Brazil's exports and Brazilian imports in Japan has dropped about 1.1%, [19] during the last 23 years the exports of Japan to Brazil have increased at an annualized rate of 1.79%. [20]
Japan's total foreign trade was equivalent to Belgium, a country with less than 10% of Japan's population. In 1897, the local monetary unit, the yen , was valued on the gold standard at a base level of 24.5 British Pence , which permits the use in the figures of the pound sterling or gold-backed US dollars.
Starting in the late 1980s, there was a reversal in the migration flow between Brazil and Japan. Brazil entered an economic crisis, known as "Década Perdida", with inflation reaching 1,037.53% in 1988 and 1,782.85% in 1989. At the same time, Japan's economy was experiencing impressive growth, making it one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
“Japanese immigrants shouldn't be held responsible for the errors of their government during the war. They were civilians working in agriculture and other sectors, fully integrated into Brazilian society.” Brazil is home to the world’s largest Japanese community outside Japan, with over 2.7 million Japanese citizens and their descendants ...
During this period, the Japanese government retained the country's rationing system, which was implemented during the war to preserve resources. [1] Despite this, neither Japanese civilian officials nor the U.S. military occupation authorities were able to allocate the food supply efficiently, which led to an extreme hunger crisis. [2]
The Empire of Japan, [c] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [8] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan.
After Japan was defeated by the Allies in 1945, colonial control from Tokyo over the far-flung territories ended. The extent of Japanese governance was restricted to the naichi (excepting Karafuto Prefecture, which was annexed by the Soviet Union); the Nanpō and Ryūkyū Islands were returned to Japan by the US in 1968 and 1972 respectively.