 The first Japanese immigrants, 165 families, a total of 786 people, arrived in Brazil on 2 June 1908 on the "Kasato Maru".Mostly farming families destined to work in the coffee plantations, they had travelled from the Japanese port of Kobe via the Cape of Good Hope.Uchida also served in senior diplomatic posts as envoy to Sweden during the First World War and as High Commissioner to the Ottoman Empire.