There are around 1.5 million people of Japanese origin living in brazil-more than in any country apart from Japan. The first people from Japan (a) come to Brazil at the beginning of the last century looking for a better life. Most of them (b) worked on coffee plantations. Some of them (c) married Brazilians,(d) had children and settled in their new country.
During the Second World War,Brazil didn’t allow the teaching of Japanese in school and the chidren of the settlers (e) spoke only Portuguese. At the end of the war many more Japanese people (f) decided to stay in Brazil.
In the 1980s there were economic problems in Brazil while Japan’s economy(g) began to improve. A lot of Japanese families (h) return to japan. Today there are around 300,000 Japanese Brazilians living in japan.