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Fun fact: Brazil has the largest Japanese diaspora in the world (larger than US): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by siruncledrew 7y ago
Fun fact: Brazil has the largest Japanese diaspora in the world (larger than US): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_diaspora
TIL after wondering why Brazil was one of the prominent contributors of foreign workers in Japan.
- chasely 7y agoThere's an interesting history of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil and Peru [0, 1]. Essentially Brazil was looking to "whiten" its country at the same time that Japan was facing economic crises, jumpstarting the immigration. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilians 1: http://isaacmeyer.net/2017/08/episode-207-across-the-sea-part-3/ http://isaacmeyer.net/2017/08/episode-207-across-the-sea-par...