Abstract
This article examines the experience of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, focusing on their first sixty years: how the group established a secure economic foothold through its mostly agricultural pursuits in Brazilian society; and how this foothold facilitated the process which achieved the upward socio-economic mobility of the group. The review of the existing historical literature is adduced to probe empirically and to test the applicability of the model of ethnic hegemony earlier proposed by Robert Jiobu, specifying the model to the Japanese group in Brazil. The study has probed the model to be useful in explaining the Japanese experience in Brazil in a new and theoretically meaningful way.
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