The Japanese community in Brazil, 1908-1940 : between samurai and carnival
"On the eve of the Pacific War (1941-45), there were 198,000 Japanese in Brazil, the largest expatriate body outside East Asia. Yet the origins of this community have been obscured. The library of English-language studies is threadbare while Japanese scholars routinely insist that life outside of Japan was filled with shock and hardship so that, as one historian asserted, 'their bodies were in Brazil but their minds were always in Japan'." "The study redraws the world of the overseas Japanese. Using the Japanese-language press of Brazil, it explains the development of a community with its own, often aggressively independent or ironic views on identity, institutions, education, leisure, and on Japan itself. Emphasising the success of Japanese migrants and the openness of Brazilian society, it challenges the received wisdom that contact between Japanese and other peoples was always marked by hostility and racism."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001
Palgrave, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2001
x, 209 pages : map ; 22 cm
9780333636862, 0333636864
46969965
1. Leaving: Japan's Entry into a World of Migration, 1885-1905
2. Arriving: the Early Japanese in Brazil, 1908-19
Life on the fazenda
Settlement: Japanese landowning
Urban life
3. Setting: Migration as National Policy in the 1920s
Emigration as national policy
A new Brazil: changes in industry and identity
The expansion of Japanese settlement
City life
Organising the community
Images of home
4. Expanding: the Japanese Community, 1930-36
Responses of the Great Depression
Race fears and constitutional restrictions
A settled community
5. In Transit: a World of New Orders, 1937-40
The language of nationalism
Order and progress: the expatriate community, technology and medicine
'Ex-patriotism': migrants and the Sino-Japanese war
Religion: nationalism and internationalism
Closing images: Japanese and Brazilians circa 1940
6. Conclusion