Abstract
Until 1945, Japanese schools were created by the nikkei community in Brazil with the purpose of preserving the language, the culture and, mainly, the Japanese morality. Textbooks of Elementary School and High School, produced in Japan during the ultra-nationalist period (late nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century), were imported and adopted by these schools. This study aims to analyze the re-reading that the Japanese immigrants and their descendants gave to the ideological content of these textbooks and the reflexes of this education in the younger generations.
Keywords:
japanese ultranationalist education; textbooks; japanese immigration in Brazil; japanese-brazilian thought