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• Introduction

• Chapter 1 Before the beginning: Early history of Japanese emigration (1)
  • Gannen mono – The first overseas emigrants
  • Peak years of emigration to Hawaii
  • Failed plans for emigration to Brazil
• Chapter 1 (2)
  • Argument for colonial emigration and emigration policies of the Government
  • Japanese exclusion in North America and Australia

• Chapter 2 Prehistory of emigration to Brazil (1)
  • First set of emigrants shipped by the Kokoku Shokumin Kaisha
• Chapter 2 (2)
  • Voyage, assigned to plantations and leaving plantations
  • The second set of emigrants on board the ship Ryojun-maru

• Chapter 3 Establishment of Japanese settlements (1)
  • From colonos to independent farmers
  • Formation of Japanese settlements
• Chapter 3 (2)
  • Iguape Colony
  • Alianca Settlement
• Chapter 3 (3)
  • Establishment of Emigration and Settlement Companies
  • Assimilation incentives and anti-Japanese legislation

• Chapter 4 Emigration under the goverment policy to protect and promote (1)
  • Emigration incentives as a means of solving population and unemployment problems
  • Overseas Emigration Association Act created and the Sociedade Colonizadora do Brazil Limitada (Brazilian Colonization Company) established
• Chapter 4 (2)
  • Development of the Amazon
  • Nanbei Takushoku Kabushiki Gaisha (South America Colonization Company Limited) (State of Para)
• Chapter 4 (3)
  • Amazonia Industrial Research Center
  • Educational problems in Nisei (the second generation of Japanese immigrants)

• Chapter 5 Rise of nationalism and Japanese immigrants exclusion (1)
  • Establishment of the quota system and movements for Japanese immigrants exclusion
  • Prohibition on Japanese language education
• Chapter 5 (2)
  • Nikkei society during the war between Japan and the U.S. Advocacy for re-emigration to Asia

• Chapter 6 Split and antagonism in the Japanese community (1)
  • Kachigumi and Makegumi
• Chapter 6 (2)
  • From the community of fellow Japanese resident overseas to the "Colonia"

• Chapter 7 From the reintegration of the Japanese community to the present (1)
  • Reintegration of the colonists
  • Postwar emigration
• Chapter 7 (2)
  • Postwar emigration agencies
  • Changes in the Japanese community

Columns

• The Ship Kasato-maru
• National Kobe Emigrant Camp (Kobe Emigration Center)
• Mega agricultural cooperatives – Cotia and Sul
• Dojinkai Corporation of Japanese residing in Brazil and Nihon Hospital
• Agroforestry in the Amazon
• Emigration to Brazil and coffee
• Café Paulista and the Granted Coffee
• Brazilian baseball
• The undefeated Conde Koma challenged the Amazon
• Japanese emigrants to Brazil and Haiku

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