
Princess Kako is in Brazil
Japanese Princess Kako, the second daughter of Crown Prince Fumihito, is in Brazil to celebrate 130 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. She is also traveling to many different cities to meet groups of Japanese-Brazilians. Although Brazil is on the other side of the world from Japan, more than 2.5 million Brazilians of Japanese descent live there. The first Japanese moved to Brazil in the early 1900s. At that time, Japan was poor, and Brazil needed people to work on coffee farms. Many more Japanese followed them. They hoped to make enough money to come back to Japan, but most couldn’t. They stayed in Brazil, and today, Brazil has the largest group of people of Japanese descent of any country in the world. (125 words) You can send me a comment or your own story at jaremaga@gmail.com