c.2 million Brazilians of Japanese descent (2019)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Japan: 208,857 (2019) Japanese Brazilians in Japan[2] 0.2% of Japan's population
Languages
Portuguese • Japanese
Religion
Predominantly: Roman Catholicism[3] Minority: Buddhism and Shintoism[4] Japanese new religions Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
Japanese, other nikkei groups (mainly those from Latin America and Japanese Americans), Latin Americans in Japan, Asian Latin Americans
Japanese Brazilians (Japanese: 日系ブラジル人, Hepburn: Nikkei Burajiru-jin, Portuguese: Nipo-brasileiros, [ˌnipobɾaziˈlejɾus]) are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil or Japanese people of Brazilian ancestry.[5]
The first group of Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908.[6] Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan. Since the 1980s, a return migration has emerged of Japanese Brazilians to Japan.[7] More recently, a trend of interracial marriage has taken hold among Brazilians of Japanese descent, with the racial intermarriage rate approximated at 50% and increasing.[8]
^"Japan-Brazil Relations". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. November 26, 2019. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2021. Number of Japanese nationals residing in Brazil: 50,205 (2018); Number of Japanese descendants: 2 million (estimated)
^"ブラジル連邦共和国（Federative Republic of Brazil）基礎データ｜外務省". 外務省 (in Japanese). June 9, 2021. Archived from the original on June 21, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
^Adital – Brasileiros no Japão Archived July 13, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^"Brazil". state.gov. September 14, 2007. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
^Gonzalez, David (September 25, 2013). "Japanese-Brazilians: Straddling Two Cultures". Lens Blog. The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 2, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2013.
^Nakamura, Akemi (January 15, 2008). "Japan, Brazil mark a century of settlement, family ties". The Japan Times Online. Archived from the original on November 11, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
^Takeyuki Tsuda (April 2003). Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland – Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231502344. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
^Jillian Kestler-D'Amours (June 17, 2014). "Japanese Brazilians celebrate mixed heritage". Aljazeera. Archived from the original on July 6, 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
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