Japanese Brazilian

The history between Japan and Brazil always interests me. It's an exotic hybrid of Asian, European and Afro influences combined into one. If you've never studied or read articles on the history of Japan and Brazil, it's pretty fascinating. For the purpose of this blog, I am focusing on Japanese in Brazil since there are not many well-known Japanese Brazilians in Japan.

Since I love following fashion, there are some well-known fashion models from Brazil with Japanese ancestors. In a previous post I wrote about Juliana Imai. There are also male models like Leandro Okabe, Hideo Muraoka, and Akihito Sato. Droooolllll

(Hideo Muraoka  homorazzi.com)

(Leandro Okabe  adonismale.com)

(Akihito Sato  philippinemodels.blogspot.com)

Then you have musicians and politicians and entertainers. I enjoy the chill, relaxing sounds of bossa nova and Lisa Ono is a well known artist in Brazil. 

Lisa Ono singing Girl From Ipanema

Then you have some hilarity from Sabrina Sato who was made famous in Brazil by their version of Big Brother. She is pretty ballsy and outrageous. Just watch some clips of her driving drunk, doing samba in a quiet neighborhood late at night and trying to speak very broken English to the one and only WOLVERINE!

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Finally you have samba in Tokyo! Pretty cool to see Japanese people channeling the rhythmic dances of samba...

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