Theyre ya go..
Over 1 million Japanese reside in Sao Paulo City alone, making of it, The Largest Japanese city outside of Japan.

Source: http://members.aol.com/pochetti5/sampa-brazil.html

everyone knows that. :)

Similar architecture looks like it.

I think its just a coincidence that Sao Paulo and Tokyo have similar skylines. Unless the 1 million Japanese mentioned have enough influence to dictate how the skyline of Sao Paulo should be built.

^^ lol probably

I remember a Brazilian student telling me that 30% of the staff in the Architecture and Urbanism Faculty of U. Sao Paulo were Japanese-Brazilian! So THAT'S the reason!!!

O My god, i didn'd know that so many japanese lived in sao paulo, incredible, does anybody know how many japanese live in MADRID??

I had no idea there were that many Japanese in Sao Paulo either. When did Japanese begin moving large-scale to Brazil? Does anyone know the history behind this?

it may seem strange, but the first group of japanese who arrived in brazil at the beginning of 20th century, were agricultural workers. but now the japanese community has got into the superior sphere of the brazilian society: according to a brazilian friend from curitiba(an important city in the south of brazil), the mayor of his city is a japanese-brazilian...but i don't know if they dance the samba... :cool:

if you 'd like to know more, you can go to this page.
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=209932&page=2&pp=20

here, read this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Brazilian

Conditions in Japan in the early 1900s weren't great- many people searched for work outside of the country. The US closed its doors to Asia by 1924, so they went to South America because they needed laborers there.

At my university there are many many South American born Japanese studying in the international program. Very few speak Japanese, and quite a few are half-Japanese half-South American, with names like Guillerme Tanaka. I think South American Japanese with Japanese passports are trying to get a seat for themselves in the national parliament as well, but I'm not sure how successful that is.

What a surprise there are so many Japanese living in Brazil.