On June 18th, 1908, after 52 sailing the oceans (literally), the ship Kasato Maru arrived at the Port of Santos with a load of 781 Japanese inmigrants. Many ships followed the first one and hundreds of thousands of Japanese moved from the land of the rising sun to somewhat more tropical latitudes. Today, it is [...]
Posted on December 26th, 2007 in Activities, Destination: São Paulo
The Toyo Matsuri, held at the beginning of December in the oriental quarter of Liberdade, in São Paulo, is, along with the Tanabata Matsuri celebrated in July, the most important festival of the Japanese community in São Paulo. The festival has been held for 39 years now. If during the Tanabata Matsuri the streets of [...]
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Posted on August 03rd, 2007 in Destination: São Paulo
[article originally published in Spanish in the blog de São Paulo] We can hardly hide it, we have a soft spot for the Japanese quarter of Liberdade, in São Paulo. It’s our favourite part of the city. An exceptional place with a unique atmosphere on its streets. We don’t know of any other place in [...]
Posted on July 09th, 2007 in Brazil in pictures, Destination: São Paulo
This weekend the Liberdade Japanese quarter was host to the Tanabata Matsuri festival, also known as star festival. It’s a Japanese festival with a tradition of more than 1,000 years, celebrated in Brazil since 1979. We went to the Liberdade on Saturday, on a shiny day with warm temperature. Liberdade is one of those places [...]
