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It caused the deaths of between 400,000 and 500,000 people. [3] [4] Of the 800,000 people who lived in the affected Northeastern region, around 120,000 migrated to the Amazon while 68,000 migrated to other parts of Brazil. [3] The Grande Seca was exacerbated by poorly managed agriculture.
From the end of the 1980s, there was a reversal of the migratory flow between Brazil and Japan, because, with the reflexes of the economic crisis of the 1980s, in addition to the consequences of the Collor Plan and Japan's demand for workforce, about 85 000 Japanese and descendants living in Brazil decided to try life in Japan between 1980 and ...
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.
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]
“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 ...
On the eighth floor, the museum has a system that allows people of Japanese origin to find out a range of information about their immigrant relatives through their name and surname, such as the date they left and arrived in Brazil, where they arrived and their province. Searches can also be made online. [4] [6]
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.
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]