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The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908 - 1940 - Between Samurai and Carnival (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908 - 1940 - Between Samurai and Carnival (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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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
English-language library 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'. This 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 of
identity, institutions, education, leisure, and on Japan itself.
Emphasising the success of Japanese migrants and the openness of
Brazilian society, it challenges the perceived wisdom that contact
between Japanese and other peoples was always marked by hostility
and racism.
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