The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908 - 1940: Between Samurai and Carnival

by Stewart Lone

Book Overview

On the eve of the Pacific war (1941-45), there were 198,000 Japanese in Brazil, the largest expatriate body outside East Asia. Yet the origins of this community have been obscured. The English-language library is threadbare while Japanese scholars routinely insist that life outside of Japan was filled with shock and hardship so that, as one historian asserted, 'their bodies were in Brazil but their minds were always in Japan'. This study redraws the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333636864
• ISBN13: 9780333636862
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"