January 02, 2026

There are about two million people of Japanese descent in Brazil, the most in any country outside Japan. Brazil outlawed slavery in 1888, and in the decades that followed many Japanese people moved to fill the labor shortage. The martial art Brazilian jujitsu is a result of their cultural blending.

When television viewers all over planet Earth turned their attention to Brazil in 2014 to watch the competition for the football (soccer) World Cup, they were repeatedly greeted with swirling helicopter shots from above, behind, and around the colossal statue of Christ the Redeemer looking down

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There are about two million people of Japanese descent in Brazil, the most in any country outside Japan. Brazil outlawed slavery in 1888, and in the decades that followed many Japanese people moved to fill the labor shortage. The martial art Brazilian jujitsu is a result of their cultural blending.

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