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What is São Paulo?
This Brazilian city is home to hundreds of Japanese restaurants and the Liberdade neighborhood.
What happened in 1908?
In this year, Japanese people began moving to Brazil to work on coffee plantations.
What is feijoada?
This traditional Brazilian bean stew, made with beef and pork, is sold in Hamamatsu’s restaurants.
What is nikkei?
This term refers to Japanese immigrants who moved to Brazil (and their descendants).
What is Hamamatsu?
This Japanese city on the east coast has a large Brazilian population and many Brazilian restaurants.
What is over 300,000 people migration?
This many Japanese-Brazilians moved to Japan during the reverse migration of the 1980s
What is cheese bread?
This type of bread (pão de queijo) is a traditional Brazilian food sold in Hamamatsu shops.
What is Portuguese?
Many Japanese-Brazilians moving to Japan only spoke this native language of Brazil.
What is Liberdade?
This neighborhood in São Paulo became the heart of the city’s Japanese immigrant community.
What happened in 1980?
The reverse migration to Japan began this many generations after the first Japanese immigrants settled in Brazil.
What is sushi?
Japanese food whicch is sold on every corner in São Paulo’s Liberdade neighborhood.
What is a plantation?
The text defines this word as a large farm where crops like coffee, tea, or sugar are grown.
What is Liberdade district?
The street market in this São Paulo neighborhood sells traditional Japanese goods and foods every weekend.
What is cuisine?
This word refers to a style of cooking (e.g., Brazilian, Japanese, or Italian).