No. 166, Apr. 2009

Electronic Exhibition "100 anos de imigração japonesa no Brasil (100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil)"
now available

In 2008, Japanese collective emigration to Brazil marked the 100th year since it started in 1908. On this occasion, the National Diet Library (NDL) released a new electronic exhibition, “100 anos de imigração japonesa no Brasil (100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil),” which introduces the history of Japanese immigrants to Brazil. Descriptions and columns are provided in Japanese and in Portuguese.

The NDL has dispatched its staff to Brazil, Peru, Hawaii, etc. to collect materials on Japanese immigrants several times since 1984. Acquired materials include valuable documents such as diaries, letters, notes, photographs and printed matter, as well as locally-published books, newspapers and magazines in Japanese.

In the exhibition, the history of Japanese immigrants in Brazil is described in seven chapters in chronological order, and about 200 items mainly from our collection on Japanese emigration are shown. It contains a wide range of materials such as a newspaper advertisement for recruiting emigrants to Brazil, brochures on the colonies, and records of the public and private sectors related to the immigration. In addition to images, it includes many documents and newspaper articles in text format. You can also enjoy reading various columns such as "Kasato-maru (the first emigrant ship to Brazil)" and "Japanese immigrants and coffee."

We hope that this exhibition will be of some help in deepening understanding about the history of Japanese immigrants.

URL: http://www.ndl.go.jp/brasil/index.html (Japanese version)
(or access from Online Gallery in the NDL website: http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html )
*Descriptions and columns are provided in Japanese and in Portuguese.

Inquiries: webcont@ndl.go.jp
Reference Service Planning Division, Reference and Special Collections Department,
National Diet Library

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