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June 18, 2023 marks the celebration of 115 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil. This country is…

Meiry Mayumi Onohara • June 16, 2023

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Part 20: Sao Paulo's Oriental Town - Japanese Brazilians

Brazil is a large South American country located on the other side of the world from Japan. There a…

Ryusuke Kawai • Dec. 23, 2022

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A gastronomic tradition from father to daughter and from Nikkei to Brazilians

A smiling lady behind the counter where the cashier is located welcomes and thanks those who enter …

Tatiana Maebuchi • Dec. 18, 2018

Brazil business economics family-owned businesses Japantowns Liberdade Luiza Yokoyama management Pastelaria Yoka pastries São Paulo Takashi Yokohama

The thoughts behind "Here are mountains and rivers, here is love, here is life"

Have you ever seen the haiku that goes, "Here are many mountains and rivers, where love and l…

Masayuki Fukasawa • June 20, 2018

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The Freedom to be

When I began my studies on tattoo artists of Japanese descent in Brazil, in my master's resear…

Paula Sayuri Yanagiwara • March 30, 2018

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Immobile

Walking through the center of Liberdade, I noticed that a real estate agency on Rua Galvão Bueno ha…

Hudson Okada • March 19, 2018

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In two countries

Living in Liberdade, a neighborhood in São Paulo, is like living in two countries at the same time.…

Hudson Okada • May 29, 2017

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Liberty neighborhood

I have always interpreted this famous phrase by the Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy, “If you want to be…

Hudson Okada • April 26, 2017

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Japanese Barber Shop in São Paulo

When a Nikkei gets a haircut in Brazil, they often hear that “cutting Oriental people’s…

Henrique Minatogawa • Nov. 20, 2015

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Chapter 6: Liberdade

The Liberdade back then is like a completely different world to me now. It was 1964, and I had j…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Aug. 24, 2011