Issei
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Issei are Japanese immigrants to countries in North America and South America. The term is used mostly by ethnic Japanese. Issei are born in Japan; their children born in the new country are nisei; an
The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil aboard the Kassato Maru in 1908. They referred to themselves as issei and became known as Nipo-Brasileiros.
Japanese immigrants in Brazil in the 1930s
Sessue Hayakawa
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Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa w
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Hayakawa in 1918
Sessue Hayakawa in front of his "castle" house in his car, 1922
Advertisement in Exhibitors Herald for the American drama film His Birthright with Hayakawa, Marin Sais, and Mary Anderson, 1918
Hayakawa costumed as the Prince of the Island of Desire in a publicity still for the 1920 silent fantasy film The Beggar Prince