Missing Japan, Balanced in Brazil

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Missing Japan, Balanced in Brazil

Among the first generation of Japanese laborers who immigrated to Brazil more than a century ago, Haruo Ohara photographed a world where man sought harmony with tradition and nature.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/immigration-japan-balanced-in-brazil/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

From the late 1920s onward, tens of thousands of immigrants entered Brazil, including Haruo Ohara, who recorded with striking poetry the lives of that pioneering generation of Japanese migrants, or Issei, on unfamiliar shores.