🇯🇵🇧🇷Museum in Japan & Brazil’s Japan Town

🇯🇵🇧🇷Museum in Japan & Brazil’s Japan Town

Tokyo’s Yoyo Yogi Park is always having international festivals. And in July, I went to the Special Brazil Festival. And you might think, why is she making a video about this one? But I picked up a pamphlet for the Japanese overseas migration museum and went to check it out, and I learned Brazil has the world’s largest Japanese population outside of Japan. In the early 20th century, rural Japan was poor and underdeveloped, and Brazil was looking for cheap immigrant labor to replace the recently outlawed slavery. So many Japanese people went to Brazil to work on coffee farms. Turns out Sa Paulo has a museum of Japanese immigration and I really wanted to enter but I didn’t have much time in the city. So I explored Liberaji, the largest Japan town in all of the Americas. Take that California. There was a Japanese garden, multiple tayyaki shops, Asian supermarkets, and there’s a street market on weekends. So if you’re in the Western Hemisphere and can’t make it to Japan, that’s okay. Just go to Sa Paulo. And congratulations Japan and Brazil for 130 years of relations cuz that’s a long

😮Did you know Brazil has the largest Japanese diaspora in the world? 日本以外最も多い日本人がいる国はブラジルだ！A maioria dos brasileiros sabe disso, mas o país com mais japoneses fora do Japão é o Brasil!

💡In the early 20th Century, rural Japan was poor & underdeveloped. Brazil had just outlawed slavery in the 1880’s, so farmers were looking for cheap labor to replace the former slave labor. So many Japanese people immigrated to Brazil!

🔙Not covered in this video, but another interesting historical fact is that when Japan later experienced its postwar economic growth, many Japanese-Brazilians repatriated back to Japan. But many had been born in Brazil so they basically had Brazilian culture. So now Brazil has big Japanese communities, and Japan has big Brazilian communities. Wow! Haha

💁🏼‍♀️🎥🇺🇸Festival Brasil & Latino (in Tokyo every July) → Japanese Overseas Migration Museum (in Yokohama, free admission) → Museum of Japanese Immigration & Liberdade (Japan Town) (in São Paulo)

💁🏼‍♀️🎥🇯🇵ラテンアメリカフェスティバル (東京の代々木公園・毎年7月) → 海外移住資料館 (横浜・入館無料) → ブラジル日本移民史料館とリベルダーデ(日本人街)

💁🏼‍♀️🎥🇧🇷 Festival Brasil & Latino (em Tóquio todo mês de julho) → Museu de Migração Japonesa ao Exterior (em Yokohama, entrada gratuita) → Museu Da Imigração Japonesa & Liberdade (em São Paulo)

🫘Taiyaki shop- Hachi Crepe & Taiyaki

🎉This year marks 130 years of Japan-Brazil relations, so both embassies have been celebrating!

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