Colonização japonesa, história econômica e desenvolvimento regional do estado do Pará

Abstract

This paper presents a general approach of the twentieth century economic history of the great regions of the state of Para, Brazil. It also analyses the more expressive events which has been occurred during the 70 years of the Japanese immigration to northern of Para, the poorest region of that state. In that region, the Japanese undertook the more successful collective entrepreneurial of small agriculture producers in Amazon, the Cooperativa Agrícola Mista de Tomé-Açu, which is the only effective local productive arrangement in Para.