Japanese Decade
Introduction As it wrote the memorialista and plastic artist Tomoo Handa, one ' ' eddy of sentimentos' ' it took account of the Japanese immigrants and its descendants in Brazil during the decade of 1940. Feelings as nationalism, discrimination, anguish and unreliability had given the tone to the period. When the rising sun left to shine in world-wide geopolitics in August of 1945, its diffuse light served to feed the terror lived deeply for the Japanese immigrants in the postwar period. The flame of the hope alone would relight in the following decade. Watershed in the history of the Japanese in Brazil, the events of the World War II (1939-1945) had been silent deep in the Japanese soul consolidated here, finishing for strengthening in the mind of great part of the immigrants and its familiar roots of permanence. 1.
Decade of 1940: Shady times for the immigrants and descendants ' ' When the war to finish We want to live under ' ' hi-knot-maru' ' The politics of nationalistic and assimilacionista character during the Age Vargas (1930-1945) reached its height in beginning of the decade of 1940. The intolerante look stops with the foreigners. associated to the events of the war, in which Japan became, from 1942, ' ' country inimigo' ' of Brazil, they had been responsible for the moment where the Japanese colony consolidated here lived its more difficult moments. In the mind of many Japanese questionings they had appeared: Which social and cultural values would have to guide the way of life of great part of the immigrants and, mainly, of its descendants? The Japanese or the Brazilian? Added to these doubts, he had antiJapanese speech propagated by authorities, intellectuals and for the press, based on the myth of ' ' danger amarelo' '. Speech this, fed for esteretipos in which the Japanese were seen as ' ' inassimilveis' ' , ' ' imperialistas' ' ' ' traioeiros' '.
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