{"id":240,"date":"2008-06-09T17:46:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T21:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=240"},"modified":"2014-07-18T18:51:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:51:04","slug":"100-years-of-the-japanese-in-brazil-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/100-years-of-the-japanese-in-brazil-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years of the Japanese in Brazil: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the centennial of the arrival of the first boat of Japanese immigrants in Brazil, which started a wave of immigration. Brazil is now the home of the largest Japanese population outside of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the legacy of the Japanese in Brazil to see how they&#8217;ve contributed to Brazilian culture and society, based on VEJA magazine&#8217;s A-Z list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Aji-no-moto<\/i>, a Japanese spice now used frequently in Brazilian recipes<\/li>\n<li>Bean sprouts, known as <i>moyashi<\/i>, which are very popular in Brazilian salads<\/li>\n<li>Cherry trees, which are grown especially in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/li>\n<li>Chinelos (flip-flops), known as <i>zori<\/i>, inspired the world-famous Havaiana brand<\/li>\n<li>Green belt of S\u00e3o Paulo, the largest agricultural belt in the country started by Japanese immigrants<\/li>\n<li>Gateball, a cricket-like game played by 15,000 in Brazil<\/li>\n<li><i>Hashi<\/i> (chopsticks), called <i>palitinhos<\/i> in Portuguese<\/li>\n<li>Karaoke, with 117 karoake bars alone in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/li>\n<li><i>Mesti\u00e7os<\/i> (Portuguese) which means people of mixed race, since 27% of Japanese descendants are now of mixed descent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the centennial of the arrival of the first boat of Japanese immigrants in Brazil, which started a wave of immigration. Brazil is now the home of the largest Japanese population outside of Japan. Let&#8217;s take a look at the legacy of the Japanese in Brazil to see how they&#8217;ve contributed to Brazilian&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/100-years-of-the-japanese-in-brazil-part-i\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2241],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-japanese"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5468,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/5468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}