Brazil Has a Secret Japanese Side 🇧🇷🇯🇵

Added: 2026-05-29

[00:00:00]Most people picture Brazil as beaches, carnival, and samba. Almost nobody pictures Japanese culture. But São Paulo is home to 1.5 million Japanese descendants, [music] the largest Japanese community outside Japan on the entire planet. It started in 1908 when the [music] first Japanese immigrant ship arrived in Santos Port, bringing workers for coffee plantations. Today, the Liberdade district of São Paulo looks closer to Tokyo than Rio.

[00:00:25]Japanese-Brazilian food blends sushi with local ingredients in ways that exist nowhere else on Earth.

[00:00:31]Japanese-Brazilians have produced senators, scientists, artists, and athletes. Brazil received over 250,000 Japanese immigrants across the 20th century.