Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the 300,000 Japanese of Sao Paulo, Brazil, refused to believe that the war is over and that their side lost. It was the strange mission of tall, spare Father Hugo Lassalle, S.J., to convince them...
This summer, on his way from Rome back to Japan, Father Lassalle stopped off for two months in Brazil. A priest who had actually been in Japan during the war, and had been an eyewitness of Hiroshima (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946), should be able to straighten things...
Last week, in Manhattan, 49-year-old German Jesuit Lassalle described how he did it. The Japanese in Brazil, he explained, came there originally to farm and fish, make their fortunes and return home. The Jesuits first became interested in them in 1924 as a means toward the tough job of converting Japan...
Father Lassalle began his mission with gingerly diplomacy. In speeches to Brazil's Japanese colonies, he would refer to the presence of U.S. troops in Japan, the civilian need for food & clothing, the fact that Japan still had a future, after all. But after he had finished talking, people would still go away saying to each other, "Well, you see-the Father did not actually say Japan had lost...
...These people in Brazil are our best reason for conversions in Japan. The people in Japan once thought and felt the same. They have now been humiliated, crushed, and had their eyes opened, and the chance for Christian missions in Japan is several hundred percent of what it was before...