A vitória do Japão na segunda guerra mundial: uma análise da reação dos imigrantes japoneses no Brasil para derrota japonesa

Abstract

In August 1945 Japan’s unconditional surrender was widely reported by the Brazilian media but for the vast majority of Japanese immigrants and their descendants the war was over but Japan had not been defeated. However, not everyone was in agreement and some of them did recognise the defeat of Japan. The Japanese in Brazil were then split into two factions and confusion swept their communities. The main argument advanced in this article is that the inter-group conflict that divided people of Japanese descent in Brazil immediately after the war is to be understood in the context of a constellation of economic and social forces at work in the Japanese communities as well as in the historical context of forces that shaped the life of Japanese immigrants for much of the pre-war period