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The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908 - 1940

Between Samurai and Carnival

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Stewart Lone
    Pages 1-10

  3. Leaving: Japan’s Entry into a World of Migration, 1885–1905

    • Stewart Lone
    Pages 11-26

  4. Arriving: the Early Japanese in Brazil, 1908–19

    • Stewart Lone
    Pages 27-56

  5. Settling: Migration as National Policy in the 1920s

    • Stewart Lone
    Pages 57-95

  6. Expanding: the Japanese Community, 1930–36

    • Stewart Lone
    Pages 97-131

  7. In Transit: a World of New Orders, 1937–40

    • Stewart Lone
    Pages 133-164

  8. Conclusion

    • Stewart Lone
    Pages 165-172

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 173-209
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About this book

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.

About the author

STEWART LONE is Associate Professor in East Asian and Imperial History at the Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales. He is the author of books on Japanese civil society's relations with the military, and on Japanese colonialism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908 - 1940

  • Book Subtitle: Between Samurai and Carnival

  • Authors: Stewart Lone

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403932792

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-63686-2Published: 31 October 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-39468-5Published: 01 January 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-3279-2Published: 31 October 2001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 209

  • Topics: Asian History, History of the Americas, Modern History, History of Japan, Migration

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