Thursday, November 13, 2008

Japanese culture in Brazil


Hello,

Lets tell you some information about Japanese culture that has influenced Brazilian society....



First of all, there are more than
1,3 million of japanese descendent living in Brazil. It's the largest number of japanese communities abroad according to the Association of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad. In Brazil, the largest of Japanese communities are in states of Sao Paulo and Parana.

We can find in Sao Paulo, the biggest Brazilian city,
more than 600 japanese restaurant that serves tradicional japanese dishes like sushi, sashimi, temaki, tempura, teppanyaki and teishoku. These number is so incridible because there are more japanese restaurant than tradicional brazilian restaurant that we calls "Churrascaria", a steak house that serves meet of beef, pork and chicken. Furthermore, from the 1990s, with the development of globalization and the maturing of awareness on a healthy diet, Japanese cuisine was rapidly gaining strength the scenario gastronomical Brazilian. Today, fortunately, we can say that lovers Japanses cuisine in Brazil not restricted only to the descendants of Japanese.

Liberdade is know as Sao Paulo's Japan Town. We can find many variety of japanese things like restaurants, karaokes, bookstores, cafes, Japanese private schools and many association kind of Japanese provinces.

There are many
Japanese companies in Brazil as Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Nissin, Ajinomoto, Hisamitsu, Asics, Mizuno, Komatsu, Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, NEC and others that have influenced and developed my country.

This year, we are cellebrated 100th year of Japanese Immigration to Brazil, and I hope that these relationship between Japan and Brazil become stronger.

3 comments:

Jeff Cairns said...

Why did so many Japanese immigrate to Brazil originally? Was something given to them for free, like land? After that, why did the Japanese community grow to such a huge number? What is the biggest ethnic group in Brazil now other than native people?

lily said...

I was surprised for the number of Japanese living in Brazil. Aren't there run their cafee plantation? I learned Japanese in old went to Brazil with ask large land because government told them. But they couldn't get land without run plantation, but they couldn't return to Japan. Is there only plantation which is ran by Brazilian?

iori said...

I was surprised at your information about japanese descendent. By the way, I interested in differnce of between Japanese restauraunt cuisine and Blazillian restaurant. Perhaps a quantity will be a method of Brazillian .