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The Japanese in Brazil

First, a letter received:

Your information pages about BRAZIL are most informative & thoroughly enjoyable. My new girlfriend here in Florida, is from Sao Paulo and is of Brazilian and Japanese descent. I want to impress her with some knowledge about her origins, but I can't find anything in your history of how and when Japanese involvement came to Brazil. Can you help w/info? Thank you

Mike ...., Fort Lauderdale FL.

My reply to Mike:

You are right! I need to write about the Japanese in Brazil, specially Sao Paulo. I grew up with them in grade school (ginasio), with people like Keiko, Gloria and Yaeko, and Carlos Hirata. Check out this picture: http://www.brazilbrazil.com/p/pic_402e3.jpg. You can see Gloria Omori and Keiko Yamada (and me, with glasses, above Keiko and next to Gloria).

I have nothing but good to say about the nisseis, sansei and all the Japanese-Brazilians. They have overcome racism and hardship and are a valuable part of the Brazilian community. They are everywhere, doing everything (doctors, engineers, commerce, systems, farming, etc...). At one time there was a section of the city of Sao Paulo called 'Liberdade' where many Japanese lived (Little Tokyo). To most young Brazilians, the Japanese are known as fierce competition in the college admittance exams (vestibular), and as with everything in Brazil, this has become something to joke about.

Yes, I need to write a page about the Japanese in Brazil, if for no other reason than to say thanks to Yaeko's mom for the nice meals, and to Gloria and Keiko , for their inspiration in school.

Will do. I will write a page.And you can tell your family to be very, very nice to your girlfriend. She is a gem.
The best to you and her.
John

So that is how and why I am writing this page....

http://www.nihonline.com.br/cultura/bairroliberdade.asp

To pull up picture in new window, keeping existing...:
click for image This photo will give you an idea of the Arches, in a new separate window.

Some more information...

go to page The Old and New Rio. This is a page about some of the changes that have happened in the last 200 years.

And this is a full no thumbnail picture in the text, bla bla bla and so on....


Page updated: June 2004