{"id":32913,"date":"2013-08-17T02:22:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T02:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32913"},"modified":"2013-08-17T02:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T02:22:46","slug":"japanese-migration-to-brazil-was-part-of-a-peaceful-expansionist-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32913","title":{"rendered":"Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\/en\/15922\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\" target=\"_blank\">Ag\u00eancia FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n2012-07-25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elton Alisson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>USP historian Shozo Motoyama makes the above assertion in a study on the first stage of Japanese immigration to Brazil, which covers the process of cultural integration<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ag\u00eancia FAPESP \u2013 Japanese immigration to Brazil beginning in 1908 represented a peaceful means for Japan to continue developing without the military excursions it was using to become a global power at the time.<\/p>\n<p>However, the arrival of Japanese in Brazil under the auspices of the coffee barons during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Brazilian_Republic\" target=\"_blank\">Old Republic (1889-1930)<\/a> split opinion and sparked an intense debate between those in Brazilian society who were in favor of and against this immigration.<\/p>\n<p>The less than cordial integration of the two cultures through immigration is described in the book <em>Under the sign of the Rising Sun: A Story of Japanese Immigration in Brazil \u2013 volume 1 (1908-1941) (Sob o signo do sol levante: Uma hist\u00f3ria da imigra\u00e7\u00e3o japonesa no Brasil \u2013 volume I (1908-1941)<\/em>, penned by historian <a href=\"http:\/\/historia.fflch.usp.br\/en\/docentes\/shozo\" target=\"_blank\">Shozo Motoyama<\/a>, who is also a professor at Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s School of Philosophy, Letters and Humanities (FFLCH) and president of the Nippo-Brazilian Studies Center.<\/p>\n<p>Released at the end of April, the book describes the first stage of immigration to Brazil \u2013 begun in 1908 and ending in 1941 when Japan entered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" target=\"_blank\">World War II<\/a> \u2013 as part of a peaceful expansion orchestrated by the Japanese government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Supported by certain representatives of the Brazilian elite of that day, the theory known as \u201cwhitening\u201d stated that Brazil\u2019s lack of development was due to the country having been peopled by \u201cinferior races\u201d (blacks and Indians) and that the country would only develop as its population turned \u201cwhiter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the cycle of immigration of Negros to Brazil ended, the focus shifted to the Japanese, who had begun to arrive in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Defending the Japanese, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_(state)\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a> farmers accepted an absurd theory touted by a Brazilian farmer and congress member that these immigrants were whiter than the Portuguese, who had undergone an intense process of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> in the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\/en\/15922\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese migration to Brazil was part of a peaceful expansionist policy Ag\u00eancia FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2012-07-25 Elton Alisson USP historian Shozo Motoyama makes the above assertion in a study on the first stage of Japanese immigration to Brazil, which covers the process of cultural integration Ag\u00eancia FAPESP \u2013 Japanese 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