In the name of Emperor: reflections about Shindo Renmei and his campaign for the preservation of japanese ethnicity in Brazil (1937-1950) / Em nome do imperador: reflexões sobre a Shindo Renmei e sua campanha pela preservação da etnicidade japonesa no Brasil (1937-1950)

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2006

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This dissertation aims at the study of the Shindo Renmei (The Association of the Path of the Subjects). This is a japanese secret society which appeared in São Paulo in 1942, quickly moving to other brazilian states. The research revealed that the emergence of the Shindo Renmei was a counter-strategy utilized by the japanese to preserve the japanese ethnicity in the tropics, in other words, to create a japanese Brazil. With the end of the Second World War, the japanese and brazilian-japanese community was divided into the victorious (kachigumi) and the defeat (makegumi). The victorious, formed by members of the Shindo and similar associations, refused to accept the defeat of Japan by the Allied Forces. Furthermore, they started to harass every japanese and his/her descendants who acknowledged that the Rising Sun had lost the war. In some cases, such japanese and brazilian-japanese thought of as the defeat were murdered by the kachigumi. The research showed that the fact that the victorious did not accept the defeat was crucially connected with the identification of a significant part of the japanese with the shintoist religion. According to such religion, the emperor and Japan were protected by the gods, being, therefore, unconquerable. The analysis also shows that the Shindo Renmei had fascist discourse, based on three elements: the cult of leader, intolerance of alterity and appreciation of the historic and national originality.

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etnicidade shindo renmei shintoism historia xintoísmo ethnicity

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