Japanese Brazilians
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.
Nipo-brasileiros 日系ブラジル人 | |
|---|---|
Japanese descendants in São Paulo. | |
| Total population | |
| c. 2 million Brazilians of Japanese descent (2019) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Japan: 208,857 (2019) Japanese Brazilians in Japan 0.2% of Japan's population | |
| Languages | |
| Portuguese • Japanese | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly: Roman Catholicism Minority: Buddhism and Shintoism 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 |
The first group of Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan. Since the 1980s, a return migration has emerged of Japanese Brazilians to Japan. 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.
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