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The goods of Japanese companies were confiscated and several companies of Japanese origin had interventions, including the newly founded Banco América do Sul. Japanese Brazilians were prohibited from driving motor vehicles (even if they were taxi drivers), buses or trucks on their property. The drivers employed by Japanese had to have ...
This is a list of Japanese Brazilians, that is, notable people of Japanese ancestry born or raised in Brazil. Japanese immigration to Brazil started in 1908 with the arrival of the Kasato Maru . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
A reveler at the annual Asakusa Samba Carnival. Brazilians of Japanese descent in particular find themselves the targets of discrimination; some local Japanese scorn them as the descendants of "social dropouts" who emigrated from Japan because they were "giving up" on Japanese society, whereas others perceive them more as objects of pity than scorn, people who were forced into emigrating by ...
After 1984, Onoda spent three months of the year in Brazil and the rest in Japan. For allowing the Brazilian Air Force to conduct training sessions on his land, [18] he was awarded the Santos-Dumont Merit Medal on 6 December 2004. [19] On 21 February 2010, the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso do Sul awarded him the title of Cidadão ...
Luiz Gushiken (8 May 1950 – 13 September 2013) was a Brazilian union leader and politician. He was formerly the head of the social communication office of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration, a position which carried a ministerial rank. He was a second-generation Japanese-Brazilian, with Ryukyuan parents from Okinawa.
Mitsuyo Maeda (前田 光世, Maeda Mitsuyo, November 18, 1878 – November 28, 1941) naturalized as Otávio Maeda (Portuguese pronunciation: [oˈtavju maˈedɐ]), [1] was a Japanese-born Brazilian judōka and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions.
Tikashi Fukushima (Sōma, January 19, 1920 [1] - São Paulo, October 14, 2001 [2]) was a Japanese-Brazilian painter and printmaker. [3] Considered one of the most important abstractionists in Brazil, [4] Fukushima also produced several works in the field of figurativism throughout his career.
Brazilian people of Okinawan descent (2 P) Pages in category "Brazilian people of Japanese descent" The following 149 pages are in this category, out of 149 total.