SaoPaulo Japanese

TokyoMango blog has photos of the Japanese section of SaoPaulo Brazil...complete with cute octopusses on the take out vendor stands.

Wikipedia has the history HERE. There are 1.5 million ethnic Japanese in Brazil alone...although the third and 4th generation tends to intermarry.


Some of them have been recruited to work in Japanese factories in the 1980's...I once had to translate for a Peruvian at the Manila airport...he had a Pinay girlfriend and was trying to get through customs.

And some have migrated to the US:

n the 2000 US Census, 119,829 Hispanic or Latino Americans identified as being of Asian ancestry alone.[5] In 2006 the Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimated them at 154,694,[6] while its Population Estimates, which are official, put them at 277,704.[7]

And this doesn't include the Koreans, Chinese or Filipinos...

The first person of Latin American descent to go into space was Franklin Chang Diaz, a naturalized American from Costa Rica...