Princess Mako visits Brazil museum on Japanese immigrants

Princess Mako, the eldest granddaughter of Japanese Emperor Akihito, visited Sunday a Sao Paulo museum on immigration during her visit to Brazil to mark the 110th anniversary of the first arrival of Japanese in the Latin American country.An estimated 250,000 Japanese have immigrated to Brazil since the first 781 people left the port city of Kobe for the country in 1908 under a Japanese government policy at the time to encourage emigration in the wake of an economic downturn and growing population. Sao Paulo is the home to the largest Japanese overseas community."They must have faced great d…READ FULL ARTICLE