A Japanese-Brazilian has started publishing a free bimonthly magazine in the 100th year since Japanese started emigrating to Brazil.

Mario Makuda, who runs an advertising agency in Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, is producing Revista Mais Brasil (Magazine More Brazil) in the hope that Japanese will become more knowledgeable about not only soccer, the samba and the Amazon, but also about the South American nation itself and Brazilians living in Japan.

He printed 10,000 copies of the first issue of the Japanese-language periodical in January and distributed them in 25 prefectures, including Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi and Kyoto. The print run for the second issue in March was boosted to 15,000 copies.