Centenary of Japanese Immigration!!

Hi all!
I'm Japanese-Brazilian, my parents came from Osaka then arrived here in Brazil in 60's. I'm 21y old.

Yesterday we completed the Centenary of the Japanese Immigration to Brazil, that started in 1908 when Kasato Maru arrived in Santos.

Today we're the largest japanese community outside Japan, something around 1,500,000 Japanese-Brazilian hehe.
Here some comemorative coins:

Hope have others Japanese-Brazilians here too!

From the heart of Japan, WELCOME to JREF !! I hope that you spend time with us and enjoy yourself as you chit chat, discuss, and even debate about many interesting things here on JREF. Please do check out the whole forum, and get to know us and the way things work, and you'll surely make many friends !!

As far as I know at the moment, we do not have any members of Brazilian-Japanese lineage....but I could be mistaken. However, even if we do not, you can be the first, and perhaps others will join in time.

I have taught English to a number of Brazilian-Japanese in this area. I hope to hear more from you later !!

ps. I moved this here since it was more of an introduction, and not about Japan, per se. I ask for your understanding, please. MM

welcome to the site, H1karu. It will be interesting to get the perspective of a Brazilian nikkeijin here on the boards; I've researched the subject of Brazilian Nikkeijin Dekasegi/Dekasegui in Japan before, but had little chance to speak directly to any. So your parents came from Japan and you were raised in Brazil? Have you been to Japan before?

Portuguese-subtibled " Haru e Natsu "



* A special drama commemorating the 80th anniversary of NHK's broadcasting service. The story is about two sisters who meet each other again after living separated in Japan and Brazil for 70 years.

In 1934, Haru and her family emigrated from Hokkaido to Brazil. Haru's younger sister Natsu, however, was left behind in Japan because of an eye disease. 70 years later, Haru visits Japan and locates the whereabouts of Natsu but the younger sister, who thinks she was abandoned by the family, rejects Haru. After a while, the two find out that both wrote numbers of letters to the other though the letters have been left undelivered to the addressees. Through the discovered letters, the sisters learn each other's life; Haru lived in Brazil as a member of an immigrant-laborer family surviving various difficulties while Natsu lived in Japan through the Second World War and postwar economic growth depending on herself and managing a business. The drama portrays the separated sisters' lives full of ups and downs as well as their family ties, asking the meaning of "homeland" and "family."

Haru to Natsu - DramaWiki

nice gaijin said:

welcome to the site, H1karu. It will be interesting to get the perspective of a Brazilian nikkeijin here on the boards; I've researched the subject of Brazilian Nikkeijin Dekasegi/Dekasegui in Japan before, but had little chance to speak directly to any. So your parents came from Japan and you were raised in Brazil? Have you been to Japan before?

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Yes, my parents came from Japan in the 60's, hehe I'm not a Dekasegui ^^.
Yes, in 1990...1996, 2000, 2003 and in 2007. I have a lot of cousins and uncles in Japan.