Asian Brazilians

[Tutankhamun]

Asian Brazilians (Portuguese: brasileiros asiáticos) are Brazilian citizens or residents of full or predominantly East Asian or Southeast Asian ancestry. People of West Asian and South Asian origin are generally not included, as the Brazilian census uses the term "yellow" (amarelo in Portuguese) to refer to such people. Currently there are about 3 million Brazilians with East Asian or Southeast Asian origin who represent about 2% of the Brazilian population.


Notable Asian Brazilians


Juniti Saito, commander of the Brazilian Air Force.



Hugo Hoyama, table tennis player.



Luiz Gushiken, political.



Ângela Park, professional golfer.



Daniele Suzuki, Actress.



William Woo, Political.



Alex Tseng, Presenter tv



Sabrina Sato, Presenter tv



Rodrigo Tabata, Football Player.



Júlio Endi Akamine, Catholic bishop.



Cássio Taniguchi, politician, Mayor of Curitiba.



Lisa Ono, Singer.




Marcus Túlio Tanaka, Football Player.



Paulo Nagamura, Football Player.



Junji Abe, Political.



Massami Uyeda, minister at the Superior Court of Justice.




Jorge Yanai, Political.



Poliana Okimoto, Olympic, world and pan-American medalist.



Fábio Riodi Yassuda, Minister of Industry and Trade 1969-1975.




Catarina Hong, News Reporter.



Arthur Nory Oyakawa, Artistic gymnast olympic medalist.



Geovana Tominaga, Actress.



Ana Hikari, Actress.



Francisco Hyun-sol Kim, Football Player.



Jaime Pyong Lee, Youtuber.



Cities with more Brazilians of Asian origin


1) Assaí (Paraná State) – 15,01%
2) Mogi das Cruzes (São Paulo State) - 14,08%
3) Bastos (São Paulo State) – 11,36%
4) Taboão da Serra (São Paulo State) - 10,6%
5) Guatapará (São Paulo State) – 9,15%
6) Uraí (Paraná State) – 6,88%
7) Manaquiri (Amazonas Satate) – 6,26%
8) Pacaembu (São Paulo State) – 5,89%
9) São Sebastião da Amoreira (Paraná State ) – 5,71%
10) Mirandópolis (São Paulo State) – 5,26%
11) Sertaneja (Paraná State) – 5,13%
12) Jaboatão dos Guararapes (Pernambuco State) - 5,08%

City of Assaí, the most Asian city in Brazil.











Asian neighborhood in Sao Paulo city






Religion

According to the 2010 Brazilian census, Asian Brazilians were:


65.2% Catholics
14.3% Protestants
15.5% had no religion
2.0% Other Christians
3.0% practice other religions such as Shinto, Buddhism and Taoism.

Languages

According to the 2010 Brazilian census, most Asian Brazilians spoke Portuguese as a first language, with the exception of children of more recent Chinese immigrants.


Bonus: Baseball is a sport that is not very popular in Brazil. It has its national team with a good part of its players formed by Brazilians of Asian origin. Both the male and female teams.

[Tenma de Pegasus]

Its cool they are largely Christian just like the average brazilian. And I did not knew Recife had so many japaneses.

[Chaos One]

"Is we", brother

[Tannhauser]

I've 2 japanese brazilians from SP as workmates in a project rn!

PS: Great thread.

[Sebastianus Rex]

Saw many especially in São Paulo state, not only in the capital but also in the interior too. There is one working in the city I live in Portugal (one of the few asian Brazilians immigrants I've encountered in Portugal), he talks with a heavy interior of São Paulo accent.

[luc2112]

Brazilian census uses the term "yellow" (amarelo in Portuguese) to refer to such people. Currently there are about 3 million Brazilians with East Asian or Southeast Asian origin who represent about 2% of the Brazilian population.

Amerindians (pure-native) are classified as yellow, if is ex-amerindian are classified as Pardo

Asians in Brazil I think they are 0.9% of the population

[luc2112]

Saw many especially in São Paulo state, not only in the capital but also in the interior too. There is one working in the city I live in Portugal (one of the few asian Brazilians immigrants I've encountered in Portugal), he talks with a heavy interior of São Paulo accent.

Parana, São paulo (largest number), Mato Grosso and Amazon. Chinese and South Koreans also immigrated to Brazil mainly to open businesses.

[Rafael Passoni]

Ainu descent:

[Sora]

It seems Brazil is the 2nd most diverse place after USA, I guess this factor pulls me into Brazil. Also I find Brazilian + East Asian mixes so cute & hot, sometimes I wish I was (East)Asian-Brazilian mix too because of this

Especially Ana Hikari & Leia(the member of the K-Pop girl group "Blackswan") are my queens


Leia(Larissa Ayumi Cartes Sakata) of "Blackswan", she is half Brazilian(mom) half Japanese(dad) from Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

[Chaos One]

Btw, Ana Hikari is Half Japanese, Half Afro-Brazilian...