Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke to Japanese-Brazilians during a welcoming ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, on Saturday.
Brazil has 2.7 million Nikkei: immigrants from Japan and their descendants. It is the biggest Nikkei community in the world.
Among those who met with Kishida was Takashi Morita, 100, from the city of Hiroshima, Kishida's political home base. Morita handed over a book about his experience during the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city.