The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the migratory process of the koutakusseis and its relationship with the Japanese expansionist policy. It also approaches the demographic and socioeconomic profile of the koutaku group tha remained in the Brazilian Amazon and the socioeconomic and cultural contributions of these immigrants and their descendants. This research presents the demographic history of a group of Japanese immigrants composed of more than 500 people who settled in Parintins – municipality of Amazonas state – in the 1930s. This case study intends to provide an explanation for the motivation underlying the decision of such group in coming to the Amazon and the causal connection with the political intervention in the geopolitics, marked by xenophobia and institutional racism. It is also focused in explaining the reasons why they failed to establish themselves as an agricultural colony in the state of Amazonas, unlike what happened in Tomé-Açu colony in Pará state. In this process, we adopted the inductive method in the theoretical and empirical interpretations to investigate the facts as well as a theoretical-methodological instrument in interdisciplinary approach. The data analysis concludes that the colonization idealism headed by the politician Tsukasa Uyetsuka, the Kotaro Tuji’s dream of the jute cultivation and the koutakusseis saga are related to the historical context of Japan’s feudal system transition into an economic and territorial connection with the Japanese military expansionism that took place in Manchuria, China. The former may be considered a commercial expansionism, since it was an agricultural colonization enterprise, forested by the spontaneous grating of lands by the Amazonian government, seeking for alternatives to overcome the economic stagnation span after the rubber crisis.
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