Item No: #361103 [Colonization Guide for the Brazilian State of Pará] Burajirukoku parashu shokumin annai. Brazil, Yasuhira Ashizawa.
[Colonization Guide for the Brazilian State of Pará] Burajirukoku parashu shokumin annai
[Colonization Guide for the Brazilian State of Pará] Burajirukoku parashu shokumin annai

Promotional Pamphlet for the Acara Colony in Brazil

[Colonization Guide for the Brazilian State of Pará] Burajirukoku parashu shokumin annai

Notes: A promotional pamphlet to entice Japanese to emigrate to Brazil to grow cocoa in the Acara (later Tome-Acu) colony located on the Amazon River, about 250 miles south of Belem. Settlement began in 1929 and this pamphlet, which advertises transportation for colonists scheduled in May and October of 1929, may be one of the first such published.

Malaria and poor tropical farming techniques led to the failure of the cocoa plantations, but after the war, pepper was successfully cultivated for a decade until the crops were wiped out by disease.

After the US shut down immigration from Japan, Brazil became the most popular destination for Japanese emigrants and their efforts were supported by the Japanese government which encouraged the purchase of large tracts of land to form colonies, a technique tried previously with limited success in the US.

Illustrated with twelve halftone photographs on six leaves and a small folding map printed in three colors. 24 pages.

OCLC: 1674125780, 020963053 (two copies, both in Japan)

Edition + Condition: First edition. Plain printed wrappers worn at the edges and beginning to split at the spine. Fragile.

Publication: Sumita Town (Tokyo): Nanbei Takushoku Kabushiki Gaisha (South American Colonization Company), 1928 (Showa 3).

Item No: #361103

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