[LINK] "The saga of the Japanese immigrants in Brazil marks one hundred years"

[rfmcdonald]

AsiaNews's Pino Cazzaniga has an article up observing the centennial of the beginning of Japanese immigration to Brazil, a confluence of Japanese desires for an outlet for its surplus population and Brazillian requirements for a new source of immigrants to replace the Italians who were heading to North America. The Wikipedia page on.Japanese Brazilians has more background information on this community, at one million the largest Japanese population in any country outside of Japan and the largest population of Asian origin anywhere in Latin America.