The Japanese who Came to Call Brazil Home

Why are there so many Brazilian-Japanese in Japan? The answer goes back to the Meiji era, and the government's need to get rid of its own citizens.
Part 1 of a 2-part series on the Nikkei Brazilians.
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[@UnseenJapan]

Part II is now out - watch it here! : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKnWXpesqNp6grs

[@Kawayoporu]

+Unseen Japan Hi, at 19:36 - 40 where did you found that picture, I tried to look it up on google to see the original quality of it, but I can't find it?

[@thebranden9428]

I'm speechless, not only you explained about Japanese-Brazilian Imigration, but also key points in the modern history of Brazil, like the government of Getúlio Vargas. It's rare to see someone make such proper content about other nation's history, and certainly it took a lot of research to do so, nice work! About Getúlio Vargas, the proibition of foreigner languages was a strike to Brazilian diversity, since a lot of immigrant communities still used their mother language. I'm brazilian and descendant of german Immigrants, and my great-grandparents had a really harsh time during Vargas dictatorship, they were privated from their first language, the school were great-grandma went was shut down and she was never able to fiinish her education, and my great-grandpa was even arrested cause he and his friends got drunk and started to sing in German! Anyway thanks for the video!

[@7TPdwCzolgu]

My family suffered from the same thing but that was necessary

[@octavioaugusto3733]

Same with my family. We were even prohibited of using our german surname...

[@RafitoOoO]

Same with my family but they were italians.

[@AthosRac]

The video is wrong and biased. Forbidding the language has nothing to do with eugenism. German, Japan and Italy were AT WAR with Brasil. Simple like that. Brasil do not tolerate Nazi sympathizer, just like Vargas himself told the German ambassador before forbidding the languages. It's very simple. If you emigrate to Brasil, you do respond to the Brazilian government and NOT to the ambassador of your former country. Same to Italy and Japan! Vargas government funded modern Brasil. It did our industrialization and passed all work legislation that protect the workers and still rules Brasil to this day.

[@ender8759]

The main cause of anti-japanese acts in Brazil in 1930s were because of World War 2 not racism. The same happened with German and Italian imigrants at that time. Great videos!

[@rocambolli]

I think it was both

[@Suesserto_000]

It was both. Some Japanese immigrants came even before and during world war 1. This is supported by the fact that the earliest Japanese immigration to Brazil was in 1901 and it became popular in 1920s and 30s. They were willing to take up low level jobs left unoccupied by the abolishment of slavery. The morally ambiguous landlords pretty much treated them as “modern slaves”, paying them the lowest wages possible and pretty much forcing them to buy food and necessities from the company store. That combine with the Japanese living in their own enclosed social groups and the fact that most of them do not speak Portuguese, led to the discriminatory views on the Brazilian Japanese people. And ofc, it gets worse during WW2.

[@marik_dev]

@@rocambolli everyone is mixed here, that doesn't make sense.

[@rocambolli]

@@marik_dev but not when japanese people arrived. It took some time to have mixed marriages.

[@marik_dev]

​@@rocambolli You got it wrong, I'm not saying mixed with Japanese, but several other ethnic groups, racism was only a thing with black ppl and still is. Unfortunately.

[@sassiperere]

Never expected to see a video like this here! Makes me really happy to see some recognition for the japanese-brazilian population!

[@noahoskow4551]

Glad you appreciated it! I enjoyed researching this topic and learning more about Brazil - really hoping to get to Liberdade someday.

[@sharati4326]

Damn, this video should be played in schools here in Brazil. As a person who is part italian and part japanese, this video makes justice to the sacrifice of ou ancestors, and to see someone spreading our history abroad in such a marvellous way is overwhelming. Thanks Noah :)

[@hoow4ng]

thank you to that one guy on reddit who shared. super interesting video

[@UnseenJapan]

Thanks for watching!

[@noahoskow4551]

Hey 皆, thanks for tuning in for this episode! This is actually based on one of the first articles I ever did for our website, and the first topic that was big enough to warrant a series. The Japanese-Brazilians are an important part of both Brazilian and Portugues societies - it's been my pleasure getting to meet people from this community in Japan and around the world. If you're Brazilian-Japanese, let me know about your experiences or thoughts on this series! And as usual, if you have any issue with the audio, feel free to switch on the English subs. Falo com você mais tarde!

[@caiosaka1]

Noah, got here because your video made way to r/brasil, and I'm glad it did. I'd like to see your take on what WWII period summed with the built prejudice (13:00) looked like. "Fifth column" is said to be (from: outracoluna wordpress, in pt-br) to be a mean to justify discrimination and incarceration here in Brazil. But being born and living here, it's like it never happened.

[@viniciuskarimov3516]

Hi Noah, congratulations! You really dig up into this issue, no errors at all. I'm not Japanese-Brazilian (but l do have many ins and outs with Jp-Br since I do have Asian background too), but if you need any help, just feel free to reach me out.

[@noahoskow4551]

@@viniciuskarimov3516 Appreciate the offer, Vinicius! Thanks for watching!

[@Kawayoporu]

What about Japanese-Americans, are they an important part of English societies too?

[@noahoskow4551]

@@Kawayoporu Of course - I'll eventually be discussing the Japanese communities in the US as well.

[@marianalikatv]

This is brilliant! Thank you for the time and effort making the videos! I’m Japanese Brazilian, I made a video about my experience growing up Japanese Brazilian and I mentioned your channel and this video! 😊

[@UnseenJapan]

Thank you, Mariana! Glad you enjoyed it and that we could represent your history well enough. Your video was very interesting as well - thank you for making it!

[@securethebag1613]

i went to university here in the states with a couple japanese brazilians. i asked one friend, "how r u asian with a spanish accent?!?!?! she said im japanese brazilian. i speak portuguese." that same friend taught me that brazil has the biggest japanese population in the world other than japan.

[@sakugava]

Good job. My grandparents came to Brazil in 1918, from Okinawa.

[@glayhisashi]

I used to live in Toyokawa a few years ago and had to come back to Brazil because of the 2009 financial crisis. My aunt and cousins were living in Toyohashi at the time. They went to Japan from Brazil around 1995 and they still live there. Adding another info to your video, there's also Peruvian-Japanese working in Japan. I found out when I was living there. I didn't know that Peru was also a destiny after Brazil.Thanks for the memories, nice video!

[@noahoskow4551]

Very interesting hearing about your experiences! I've visited Toyokawa myself - the entire area is quite interesting. The Peruvian-Japanese connection actually predates even the Brazilian-Japanese connection by about a decade - I might get to writing about it at some point, too.

[@glayhisashi]

@@noahoskow4551 Toyokawa is a small city, but I miss living there! Found another documentary about Nikkei in Brazil while reading your comment. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIGQmWuKYtSdprM

[@glayhisashi]

There's an interview on that documentary that reflect life living in Brazil as an Issei/Nissei/Sansei. "To Brazilians I'm Japanese and for the Japanese I'm Brazilian." is the line that a nissei give to the interviewer. I'm sansei and because of that, I did not felt that much an outsider, but it was strange living in japan and be called Gaijin by locals. The word gaijin in the Japanese Community in Brazil, mean people without japanese ancestry and not foreigner as the original word.

[@noahoskow4551]

@@glayhisashi Interesting stuff, appreciate you sharing it! Currently working on the second video, which focuses on the experience of Japanese-Brazilians who returned to Japan, and that concept - of being "Japanese" in Brazil but "Gaijin" in Japan - very much features.

[@glayhisashi]

@@noahoskow4551 While living in Toyokawa, sometimes I got asked by my japanese friends: "Why you don't look like a Brazilian?". Maybe because there a lot of mixed race dekasegis that went to Japan as well. Toyokawa is a small town, besides having foreigners, I don't think that all the locals understand the whole history behind immigration stuff. The easier way to explain this was: I'm japanese, but was born in Brazil. hahahaha

[@gabrielinague3026]

A part of my history. I've heard many stories from my grandma and aunts. My great-grandpa once fled on horseback from soldiers persecuting him because of the anti-Japanese restrictions during Vargas' government and had even to burry his books and documents in Japanese (under a banana tree lol). He used to sing the song that the kids are singing in the soup opera scene. Fantastic video! Many accurate details and pictures of the Japanese-Brazilian history that we don't even see in schools here in Brazil.

[@MonteIzumi]

As someone who makes research on the subject, I can only say: well done! As so many have pointed out below, you have skillfully summarized a great amount of content in a short amount of time, and complex content at that. While there are some good Portuguese videos on the subject, this is the best one I've seen in English, by far. Great sources too, the works of Jeffrey Lesser are among the best. I only have a small correction to point out: around the 16min mark you say that internment camps never came to fruition in Brazil during WW2, but that's not true. There were some 11 camps, alongside prisons, used for the isolation of immigrants and their descendants (Japanese, German, Italian and Austrian), a famous one for the Japanese being the Tomé Açu Concentration Camp in the state of Pará, which housed some 480 families of Japanese descent (as well as some German families) from 1942 to 1945. I can provide citations if you'd like, but I'm afraid they are in Portuguese. Anyhow, this detail doesn't take away from the rest of the video, which is phenomenal! Awesome work!

[@Owari-No-Kami]

I'm Really Grateful for this Video, I'm a Sansei (technically I would be a Yonsei, as my Grandfather was born in Brazil, But His father, registered Him As both a Brazilian Citizen and a Japanese Citizen, at that time, Japan allowed for dual citizenship), and I'm not gonna lie, parts of this video really makes me kinda sad, especially the bits regarding the loss of ethinic identity starting with the sansei Generation, all of My uncles and aunts(and also my mother) married White Brazilians(I'm half portuguese and half japanese), and many ot them know very little Japanese (My Mother, the eldest of my Grandparent's Children first learned how to speak in japanese, and She's the only one that has a decent level of Japanese proficiency), whereas the youngest one, one of my aunts, knows barely Nothing(I know more than her, actually), and they basically see themselves as just Brazilians (just one of them is not a christian), so you can guess how well Japanese culture has been preserved in my family lol, and yes, as you said in the video, this 180 was not only due to the passage of time, but also due to The Varga's Government's action (fun fact, the law that outlawed foreigners from gathering, partaking in political activity, and making cultural events of their home country, was only repelled in 1991, so Yeah, Brazil is not the all accepting zero Xenophobia country that many people try to portray it as). As for the generation that I'm part of, in my family, basically all the japanese roots have basically been wiped alway, my cousins have little to no interest in anything related to Japan(even something that everyone enjoys, like anime), and basically see Japan and it's culture as something distant and unrelated to them, as a non Japanese Descent Brazilian would. I'm kind of different due to being partially raised by my Grandmother, she really partook in japanese culture (she even prayed in the Butsudan everyday), and I also lived in Japan for 3 Years when I was a child (and if you haven't guessed by my Profile pic, I'm kind of a Weeb lol).

[@ordemeprogresso727]

I am brazilian as well, i hope we brazilians one day don't have to live with this so called dictatorship. I hope in the future that many japanese consider to move to Brazil as long as we get rid of the messive coruppsen and scandal that we face everyday. You people deserves better, i found some articals that you might be interested to read.

[@maverick767]

Bom, mas realmente são apenas brasileiros, até porque "brasileiros" não é etnia e sim uma nacionalidade, muitas pessoas confundem, mas como brasileiro você deveria saber que não somos homogêneos. A grande maioria com sangue misturado de várias partes do mundo, e embora a maioria tenha sangue português por exemplo, ninguém se considera metade português. O que eu estou querendo dizer é que brasileiro por si só já é mestiço.

[@RafitoOoO]

Mas eles são brasileiros, passaram-se 100 anos desde o início da imigração. Não foi o Vargas que obrigou sua família a se assimilar, embora as leis fossem duras, existem muitas outras famílias que mantiveram a língua e costumes, sua família apenas não se interessou nisso ué. Faz parte.

[@Owari-No-Kami]

@@RafitoOoO argumentaria que foi mais a sociedade mesmo, se você tem um demérito, um ônus pra arranjar emprego, pra ser aceito pela sociedade, não vai ser todo mundo que vai gostar da ideia de ser contra cultura, de se isolar, especialmente se os descendentes vivessem em lugares onde a comunidade era pequena, não tinha outra opção, se não se assimilar, para prosperar. Hoje em dia é raro encontrar descendentes, especialmente da minha geração, que saibam japonês, nesse quesito tenho orgulho da minha persistência, hoje tenho o N2, segundo maior nível de proficiência do idioma.

[@42nanaka]

Hi, I'm sansei brazilian and really enjoyed your explanation, nice video :)

[@noahoskow4551]

Awesome, glad you liked it! Hope I was able to do justice to the history of your community.

[@otashigo]

You mean a Portuguese sensei

[@ellielarsen3673]

I accidentally came across your video Myiem which I left a comment. I subscribed and I am planing to watch all your videos. As I find the extremely professional and educating. I am looking forward to continue watching your professional videos.

[@Amplifymagic]

I'm Japanese Canadian and I really appreciated your video and now I'm extremely excited for part 2!!!!

[@noahoskow4551]

Thanks for watching! At some point, I'd love to cover the history of Japanese immigration to North America, too!

[@otaviocanalgameszueira]

United States 🇺🇸 = Chinatown 🇨🇳 Brazil 🇧🇷= Japanese Liberty 🇯🇵 Who is better?

[@qrino]

I think is Brazil

[@Artur_M.]

Fascinating! I don't know how or why I skipped this video but I'm jumping right into the part two.

[@mekarum]

That was a great video; a good historical perspective, not glossing over the hardships and economic factors nor romanticizing the phenomena. But there are some aspects that I felt were left out, maybe because they were unpalatable or marginal to the overview of the subject; they don't detract from the video but I felt like pointing them out: 1- Isolation and lack of contact with "modern" I.e. postwar Japan made certain aspects of imperial Japan survive long after they'd been dead in Japan. As an example, I've come across many nikkei who refuse outright to admit Japan had anything to do with atrocities during the war, especially against Okinawans, Chinese and Korean citizens, and also espouse a pretty supremacist view of Japanese culture/reactionary values as "superior". Racism is a pretty common sight, as is an internalization of "model minority" tropes. 2- There's a subtle rift between pre and post war immigrants; my father came from Okinawa post-war, and he often remarked how older, richer established immigrant families would act VERY smug around newcomers and paint them as poor, ignorant, unrefined and uncultured people ("japonês novo") who could be used as cheap labor and "didn't really matter" because they had nothing. Being that many of them came from Okinawa didn't help. That division is partly why in Brazilian cities with large Japanese populations might have a "kaikan" for the japanese and another for Okinawans. (I'm from Okinawan and partly ainu descent, so you can imagine what sort of stories my parents brought us up on, haha.)

[@tearodman]

nice article. That's mostly what I learned, being a grandson of japanese grandparents. I had a great-grandfather who came to Brazil worked and returned back to Japan. And he married and adopted other family there. I have some relatives who went to Japan in the 80's. Some still lives there. I personally lived 1 year in Japan and returned back by year 2000. It was a nice experience to grow in Brazil then living in Japan.

[@catharinalopez8391]

Nossa explicou melhor que os outros vídeos em português!

[@akuniyoshi]

Thank you so much for the comprehensive research about the Japanese immigration to Brazil. As a Japanese Brazilian I truly appreciate seeing part of my family’s history being told. Most videos never tell the whole thing, this is one of the few videos telling what happened with the Japanese immigrants and their descendants during World War II.

[@g__e__o]

I think this is the most informative video about the japanese immigration in Brazil that I have ever seen!

[@UnseenJapan]

Cheers, glad you appreciated it!

[@kurapikakurutabr]

Awesome job ! You're so accurate even me a Brazilian, learn more with your video !

[@Kawayoporu]

Did you get the names Kurapika Kuruta from anime?

[@Goku17yen]

Your videos are super high quality. Thank you

[@LucasDarkGiygas]

That was incredibly well made. Good work.

[@UnseenJapan]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@LewisWirth]

This is one of the videos that inspired me to visit Brazil 🇧🇷 and film its Japanese heritage (not just Liberdade)

[@TheLunaKeat]

As a brazilian I knew about most of the things here, but I didn't know about the conflicts or the propaganda against japanese people. I also didn't knew why USA and Europe didn't accept them. In school we are taught that after many wars Japan was suffering bad economic problems and meanwhile Brazil was growing super fast thanks to exportation and the fact that we were not so active in WW1 and WW2(We were there and did some stuff, but nothing big enough to afffect the whole country like other countries were affected.). We didn't have people that wanted to work in the fields or that had farming knowledge enough for all the demand, and Japan did since back then was a mostly agricultural country with hard workers, so our countries agreed to help each other. That's pretty much what they teach us. We also learn a lot about Getúlio Vargas since he had a big impact in our country, but never once I heard about what he did to the japanese here. But to be fair, he did a bunch of shitty thing, we would spend a whole year just in that topic if they taught everything bad he did.

[@UnseenJapan]

Interesting to hear your perspective! Glad to know the subject is covered in schools.

[@drstupid1]

Cool video. You should mention Liberdade, the Japanese part of Sao Paulo which is an amazing cultural melting pot! Everyone going there should visit!

[@noahoskow4551]

You're right - I really should have discussed Liberdade! Really hoping to visit some day myself.

[@Kawayoporu]

+drstupid Do you know or, already been to Little Tokyo in Los Angeles or the Japantowns in San Francisco or San Jose?

[@Kawayoporu]

+@@noahoskow4551 Hi, did you went to Little Tokyo or the Japantowns in USA?

[@noahoskow4551]

@@Kawayoporu Sure, very interesting places.

[@qrino]

@@Kawayoporu actually Brazil have more japanese

[@ecmpinho]

In Second World War the gueto policies were not exactly racial, but national. Both japanese, italian and german immigrants and descendents suffered with that same fate, and not totally without a reason. Vargas had to end the biggest nazi party outside Germany in south Brazil in the 30's, that was oppenly defending secession into a germanic state. Japanese immigrants had issues that endured till the 60's, like the refusal to accept the japanese surrender of 1945, in the form of lots of assassinations of those who believed in the ocidental false propaganda. The terrorist group acted inside those communities in the 40s and 50s were called 'dirty hearts'. The brazilian dictator was a manipulator, flirting with almost every political group imaginable, and he did the same with nations and groups of peoples.

[@gloriathomas3245]

fantastic mini-doc

[@patriciavalencia2674]

Gente 48 anos de vida e não lembro de ter estudado em detalhes a imigração dos japoneses pro Brasil! Tantos detalhes …. Na escola passamos por está fazer muito rapidamente. O Brasil tem hoje grande diversidade, uma aquarela de cores, uma diversidade e mescla de culturas.

[@SanD-n8b]

País incrível 🇧🇷 Povo idem ❤

[@anthropologicalminds2855]

Wonderful series! I personally thought that the starting point for all of this would touch a little more on slavery and early Portuguese-Japanese interactions but still a great job.

[@betokodama]

Very good researching. I'm surprised to use an Globo soap opera as background images to tell about Shindo Renmei. THUMBS UP!👍

[@kjhunfuku]

Best video about Brazilian-Japanese history I ever watched here!

[@nomadicmonkey3186]

I'm a simple bilingual Japanese person, I see Unseen Japan upload, I hit like. (To be edited; I guess imma add my two cents after watching the whole vid) What jumped out at me the most as a modern Japanese history major, a research field that I'm pretty much convinced is criminally overlooked in the West or even in Japan as well, is how devastatingly poor pre-WWII Japan was. This fact is widely known amongst the researchers domestic and overseas, but to my (infuriating) surprise is little known even by the average Japanese people not to mention in the West or any other parts of the world. This, as far as I understand from various sources I've read, on one hand caused a significant number of Japanese emigrants' influx particularly into Hawai'i and Brazil that came to become the largest Japanese immigrant population in Brazil but on the other hand was a major driving force behind the Japanese empire's reckless and posthumously utterly stupid fever dream of expansion into other parts of Asia, when the ruling class especially the Army thought it'd be best to tell the millions of (I'm not even exaggerating the number here) of impoverished farmers to cooperate in their imperialist plundering and subsequent settling down in Manchuria and in the Southeast Asia by supporting their expansionist agenda, rather than to uprise against the unchecked capitalist rule that was the imperial Japan (despite the outward appearance of absolutism that the Meiji Constitution presented). Please note that I'm NOT BY ANY MEANS AN APOLOGIST FOR THEIR INVASION AND COLONIALIST EFFORTS AT ALL, I'm the exact opposite to that as I believe making sense of the atrocities committed by otherwise "normal" Japanese people back then is crucial to understanding how ordinary, non-fanatic people could and was turned into a horde of bloodthirsty murderers, which I reiterate I deeply regret and is ashamed for, all the while they were being subject to one of the most cavalier, wanton act of disregard by what they believed to be THEIR OWN EMPEROR'S government that told a lie of liberating Asia whilst the upper echelon of the government was totally aware of their own hypocrisy as historical records have clearly demonstrated.

[@udui1o173]

What were the prefectures of people of Japan settled in Brazil? There should be a large Okinawan community of 150,000 from Okinawa.

[@viniciuskarimov3516]

Here in São Paulo city you have two important districts: Liberdade tend to have more Japanese people, while Vila Carrão has a huge Okinawan community (every year there's a Okinawan festival, btw). Interesting enough, nowadays isn't uncommon to see japanese people coming to São Paulo to study Uchinaaguchi since it's more preserved here than in Okinawa at all. =)

[@MrownXXV]

Do you know what song you used from 6:10 to 8:45? very nice song.

[@mattcy6591]

Been following for years on Twitter and just now realizing you have a youtube lol

[@vandaymen3911]

On July 8, 1943, during World War II, the federal government ordered the evacuation of "Axis subjects" from the Brazilian coastline. Thus, 6,500 Japanese immigrants who lived on the coast of Santos were forced to leave their homes, abandon their possessions and properties within 24 hours. They were to leave with only the clothes on their backs and take their children with them. Of these families deported from Santos, more than 60% were immigrants from Okinawa. Many were arrested and forced by the military to stay in concentration camps. Movie: "Okinawa Santos"

[@MrJusmessin]

Funny I was actually reading about this today! Although I came in contact with the subject, from another angle, I was doing some research on, miscegenation. Although the Chinese workers were loathed, the government at the time had another group in mind that was worst... At least based on what I read. You didn't say anything about it, I guess I'll find more on that matter elsewhere. Very informative piece btw.

[@NandoEdp]

My great-great grandfather was an Immigrant and he married a Brazilian white woman, who they had a daughter (My great-grandmother) that later married a portuguese guy. Their son (my grandfather) married a woman who is also a lot mixed, even thought she's considered white, she's a mixture of europeans, indigenous and black, and they had my Mom. My mom married a Portuguese guy and here I am. Altough I dont have a Japanese last name, it's crazy that my family have some aspects of the Japanese people, slightelly slanted eyes and body structure ressemble a lot, my whole family have the same structure and we're not so tall (even thought Im 1,80). So Im tecnically fifth generation, Gosei 😅.

[@browniehomie]

maan this is mad brilliant and interesting. so well put. props

[@rafaelito6239]

Good work !

[@jssmedialangs]

Racism is exhausting... 😫 So much history that I didn't know! Thank you for taking time to make this.

[@TB80231]

I know researching all the different cultures and people of the world to be more accurate in my racism is daunting

[@Struggler116]

You should do a video about soran bushi, it would be interesting.

[@vonkaiser1344]

porra vídeo completinho. awesome video.

[@UnseenJapan]

Muito obrigado!

[@vonkaiser1344]

Very cool you trying to speak portuguese

[@kenzomuramatsu7630]

Thank you so much for making this video. Such a fascinating part of history, yet rarely talked about! My great-grandfather once hid from Shindo Renmei decades ago. There's a fantastic book that every nikkei should read: "Coracoes Sujos" , by Fernando Morais www.amazon.com/Coracoes-Sujos-Em-Portugues-Brasil/dp/8535919376

[@deleted72636]

This is such a good Documentary

[@michealgarcia2170]

I went to Sao Paulo Brazil in 1985 I never got to see the Japanese district when I was there.

[@noahoskow4551]

That's too bad - seeing Liberdade is one of my main goals for when I finally get to Brazil!

[@michealgarcia2170]

@@noahoskow4551 I also went to Brazil again this was back in 1992 I was 23 years old I went to Salvador Bahia I had a great time there.

[@gigogigoaelo3098]

@@noahoskow4551 Liberdade is not what it used to be anymore. There is still the Japanese influence in ther, and still woth of visiting it, but most of the Japanese people don't live there anymore.

[@nihongochopsocky808]

Thank you so much for this video!As a Gosei I'm American 100% Japanese, born raised, and still living in Hawaii.I've often wondered about the Japanese population outside of Japan.Now that all 4 of my grandparents have passed on and with the population decline in Japan.Im not only trying to teach myself Japanese, but I may take up Judo or Kendo soon.I do hope Japan is able to rebound from this crisis.Maybe I should find a Japanese wife to help!😂

[@marcusgabrielcomposer]

Japanenses loves US and europe, and forget who helped them in all history.

[@catherineoskow2690]

So interesting!

[@TheKalihiMan]

I am of partial Japanese descent and most of my family went to sugar plantations in Hawaiʻi, but I have recently discovered that a sibling of one of my great grandparents instead went to Brazil (and that their unwilling separation was a source of lifelong resentment).

[@תאופילג]

What's the name of the song that starts playing at 11:11?

[@UnseenJapan]

That's "Soran Bushi," a traditional work song out of Hokkaido.

[@תאופילג]

@@UnseenJapan ありがとうございます✨

[@cowsel666]

Needing you to make a video of the history of Chinese immigration in Brazil. Few know, but Brazil had Chinese slaves.

[@china-brazil-korea6312]

Oi, eu vejo que você é um chinês brasileiro, mas olha o que eu fiz no meu canal, você daria uma olhada, porque ninguém comenta meus vídeos, por favor, você pode fazer isso agora hoje à noite ou amanhã?

[@china-brazil-korea6312]

Ei, você recebeu minha resposta colega chinês brasileiro?

[@0Shanna]

18:04 "Many years" HOW MANY!!!!?

[@karaiwonder]

Please! What’s the video at 2:34?

[@UnseenJapan]

It's "Konbini Ikou!" Bit of a blast from the past.

[@everaldosimoes1191]

Brasil e Japão 👍

[@AthosRac]

05:31 The map is not acurate. Brasilia was built in the 60s....the capital was Rio de Janeiro.

[@ShinjiHigashi]

I am half Japanese half Brazilian I was born in Japan but I moved to Brazil when I was 2.

[@tonym7919]

You forgot to mention that Canada also had an anti-Asian immigrant policy. Not just America. Canada also had Japanese internment camps.

[@Kawayoporu]

+Tony I am from Canada as well, but it's so strange how could Canada too be like USA put them to internment camps, since Canada was never bombed by Japan and also it was in fact bombed in Hawaii, not the coast of mainland USA, but I wish Canada had a million Japanese like USA did, but brazil felt it has a small number of Japanese, because it said a total of Japanese went to brazil was over 242,643 population there, assuming, because Japanese can speak English so the reason brazil is not an English country like Anglo America was, both US and Canada have the Japanese settlement arrived before brazil did you know, USA had them before Canada and it looks accurate that USA is the top one largest Japanese population or colony hosting outside of Japan in the world?

[@goukeban6197]

8:51 - Brazil numbah 1!

[@rosemiramoreira82]

As a Brazilian I always wondered why some Brazilians looked Asian and now I know why

[@rudsonchannel2935]

Brazilian jiu-jitsu thanks

[@tyrannicalgod6064]

Im from Czech Republic and I love Japan

[@Kawayoporu]

In USA there are now 8 generations of the Japanese descents right? Since USA have them first dozen years before to brazil so USA has more number of Japanese generation then brazil I just realized now.

[@CorruptionManX]

No, do a quick search and you will see that the largest Japanese community outside of Japan is in Brazil. But if you're talking about which country has more generations of Japanese then it could be the United States.

[@Kawayoporu]

@@CorruptionManX I believe they are false, American friend. USA have Japanese and their descendants for 156 years over 3 million as I one of them and more then it did that have 116 years of Japanese in brazil over 242 thousand in brazil like Japanese in argentina, peru or mexico smaller in population thousands too.

[@OoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOok]

Brazil is a surprise, the world have a "characteristic face", but in Brazil no, give up, like me descendent of Italians 60%, Portugueses, Native Americans and Africans... But i'm from Brazil 😂 Green or blue eyes? No, Golden hair like my parents? No, ok but i'm giant like a traditional italian? Nah... so what i have A F****ING JAPANESE FACE, i don't know how because my family (mother and father part) don't have asian blood, not only me, my cousin have too and your face is so EQUAL than Live action Zoro as a kid. I don't know whats happen with Brazil but it's eazy see a white guy, with arab face, afro hair, green eyes with spanish beard, yeah it's my friend Gabriel i'm calling about you 😂😂😂

[@rsuriyop]

I don't see how groups of people could migrate to different countries and somehow think that assimilation won't eventually happen within their own group. It might not happen with the first generation. But the second, third, forth, and beyond would likely become more culturally assimilated in to society and even intermix. It's just pure ignorance to somehow not think this would eventually happen some time down the line. Cultural assimilation among ALL groups in to a foreign land is simply inevitable you no matter how hard you try to resist.

[@mikoy9241]

2:06 whats with the upside-down Philippine flag, we arent at war lmao

[@UnseenJapan]

Guess the person who made the sign feels otherwise 😂

[@tazerlizardproduction4560]

Ahhhh wtf Edit:I think I am to only one using vulgar language all the comments are wholesome and I am feeling bad about swearing for the first time

[@raycamm2777]

The origins of BJJ brought me here.

[@cloama]

Time truly is flat circle. Jesus.

[@leoalemax]

Ola!

[@Kawayoporu]

Was there ever a poster that woo Japanese to Hawaii, US or Canada?

[@qrino]

Brazil have more japanese outside Japan! Brazil is such a good country

[@niloleal3252]

I still wanted to know how Japan likes the USA too after what they did to Japan, but I think you have to at least accept that Japan likes both Brazil and USA

[@Kawayoporu]

+@@niloleal3252 What about Canada? While USA host the top first largest in the world and Canada should be having the second and brazil be same way to peru!?

[@Kawayoporu]

@@qrino No, it's not outside Japan, it's largest in latin america, half chinese fella, the USA, already got the Japanese arrived there in the 1880s before, mexico, peru, brazil and argentina and that makes it the strong population in the Japanese American diaspora in the world outside Japan the same way Japan and US have strong animation industries having so much in common, not many Japanese would go to this very hot country they are not use to, just the vietnamese or thais, but the Japanese not many speak portuguese which are 0 to them, but English know very much, they are use to USA climate like Japan which both commonly have four seasons and many Japanese speak English so that many can communicate in USA more then brazil as the Polish, germans and other Europeans.

[@Kawayoporu]

@@qrino USA have more Japanese outside Japan while brazil have the largest Japanese in latin america, more then mexico or argentina, but behind USA, because the Japanese came to USA first before Brazil right?

[@alt1f4]

Wow

[@mllegendas1319]

Cool

[@luiza162]

💕🇧🇷🇯🇵💕

[@kn2549]

Did Portugal ever officially apologize and pay compensation to Japan for taking slaves? Are there any memorials for the victims? Is it taught in schools in Portugal?

[@NounOzlos]

What does this have to do with this video...?

[@yuriaihara704]

If only they taught this in Japanese schools…

[@mattheweuqnicurzeid7154]

Seeing what type of country Brazil is and how messed up the Brazilian society is, they should be very grateful to have many Japanese in that country.

[@camilatsunemori1188]

Source: matthew

[@gv5884]

Care to elaborate? What do you mean by grateful? Japanese people aren't a gift; they're just people, like anybody else.

[@ClaraSantosicegurt]

Why this sound like when people say that colonized countries should be "grateful" for being colonized ( but in a different situation) ??

[@CorruptionManX]

In fact, the Japanese who currently live in Brazil who are grateful for the opportunity to have come to this country. Most of them were successful and are grateful to live here in Brazil, I came to Japan as a child and never wanted to go back to Japan because it was here in this country where my parents and I managed to conquer our things. And Brazilian society is not at all messed up, the problem is Brazilian laws that benefit criminals who are a minority in Brazil, laws should be stricter with criminals. But it is remarkable that your comment is from an ignorant person who does not know the country and just repeats what others say.

[@sheko1615]

+

[@aaetherakashaa4143]

Except thier are more " japanese- Brazilians" in brazil

[@UnseenJapan]

That's what this video is about?

[@aaetherakashaa4143]

I just meant thier are more brazilian-japanese living in brazil than brazilian-japanese living in japan, might not of caught if you said that. Good video with alot of nice info enjoyed it

[@UnseenJapan]

Ah, gotcha! Thanks for watching, and glad you enjoyed the video.

[@ubuntuber1619]

i met a Japanese brazilian girl called Erica before covid in sao Paulo and ended up having scat sex over japanese porn and cocaine, its wild out there

[@nacionalista1755]

After that you saw it was just a dream lol

[@CorruptionManX]

@@nacionalista1755 kkkkkkkk.