I’m told that São Paulo has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan.
–Matt Mullenweg
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Yeah! If you like japananese culture, ask someone about “Liberdade”, it’s a town in São Paulo mainly formed by Japanese and asian descendents. Great food and readings! Cheers and welcome to Brazil 😉
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Yeah, that’s what i’ve heard. I live in São Paulo and there is a large Japanese colony formed between in early 1900s. I’m not a Japanese descendent but there is many cultural influence in my life, mainly in foods and some words. For instance, hashi is well known and most use them when in a Japanese restaurant.
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-raises eyebrow- That’s interesting…
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And it’s incredibly true. They’ve been living there for over one hundred years. By the way, it’s a very beautiful neighborhood. 🙂
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I just stumbled into your site..
Brazil do have the largest Japanese immigrants and their descendants living outside of Japan. I believe it was Sao Paulo. I have my grandparents’ cousin moved there as well. 🙂
Bobbie
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Yes, it’s right 😉
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Last year we celebrated the 100th year of the first Japanese ship to arrive in Brazil: Kasato Maru.
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I definitely need to upgrade to super wordpress! 🙂
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And curiously enough, Japan is the asian nation with the largest number of Portuguese speakers… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_distribution_of_Portuguese#Rest_of_Asia
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That was because of the Brazilians with Japanese background who went back to Japan as imigrants. But I think this will change soon as the japanese government is paying them tickets to come back to Brazil.
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I have heard that there are many Japanese descendants out there. Including my very very very distant relative, so I have heard…
Many immigrated there both pre- and post- WWII, believing that it is the land of the future.
There is a Japanese international football (… aka soccer) player named Tulio, who now has a Japanese Citizenship, but was born in Sao Paolo to a Japanese-Brazillian family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Tulio_Tanaka
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