Japan-Brazil Amity Day

On this day, November 5th, in 1895, Japan and Brazil signed the "Japan-Brazil Treaty of Amity and Commerce" and thus started diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The place the treaty was signed was Paris, France. It was the first treaty of equality between Japan and Brazil. The signee on the Japan side was Ambassador to France at that time, Sone Arasuke, and the signee on the Brazilian side was the Brazilian Minister to France, Gabriel de Toledo Piza e Almeida.

Earlier this year, in June (2025), Princess Kako visited Brazil to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between the two countries. Most of the TV stations reported on her trip, some even had daily reports of what she did and what she wore! In 2018, her sister Mako, who was still a princess at that time, visited Brazil for the 110 year anniversary of Japanese immigration.