Final Japanese Newspaper in Brazil Striving to Keep in Print

Sao Paulo, April 30 (Jiji Press)–Diario Brasil Nippou, the final remaining Japanese-language newspaper in Brazil, is struggling to maintain its presses rolling.

The South American nation is house to the most important Japanese society exterior the East Asian nation, with some 2.7 million “Nikkei” immigrants and their descendants.

Behind the difficulties going through the paper is a decline within the variety of subscribers partly reflecting the getting older of immigrants from Japan.

The every day hopes to remain afloat by stressing the cultural function it performs. As a part of the efforts, it has began soliciting “supporters” and can print a particular version to coincide with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s go to to Brazil in early Could.

Throughout World Battle II, Japanese-language newspapers had been banned in Brazil, and plenty of immigrants from Japan believed the propaganda broadcast by the Japanese authorities on shortwave radio. Whereas publication of Japanese-language papers was resumed after the warfare, a battle erupted between Japanese immigrants who believed Japan had received the warfare and those that knew it had misplaced.

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