Aung Lin-Week 7-Blog 7

I will write this week’s blog on Lesser’s article “From Japanese to Nikkei & Back.” I find this article very interesting because I had no clue that there are many Japanese people living in Brazil since early 1900s. I think this is part of what diaspora means since Japanese left their homeland and went all the way to Brazil and in Brazil they celebrate their traditional holidays and do their traditional dance at festivals. Hachiro Fukuhara was a wealthy businessman that decided to do farming in the Amazon in the 1920s. I’m dying to know why he did that. Is it because there’s no farming land in Japan? I’ve never heard of this. Also Rokuro Koyama came to Brazil in 1908 on the 1^st ship bringing Japanese immigrants. I want to know why these immigrants came to Brazil? What factors pushed them out of Japan? Why did they leave their homeland? Since they migrated to Brazil on their own, does it mean they were displaced? How?

Work Cited

Jeffrey Lesser. “From Japanese to Nikkei and Back: Integration Strategies of Japanese Immigrants

and Their Descendants in Brazil.” 2005. Displacements and Diasporas. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Hachiro Fukuhara (famous Japanese businessman that started farming in Brazil)

Japanese women in Brazil doing their traditional dance during ethnic dance festival in Curitiba, Brazil.