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YAKISSOBA IN BRAZIL

By Sushma Joshi São Paolo is the third largest city in the world – after Mexico City and Bombay, according to some commentators. São Paolo is also the city with the largest population of Japanese outside Japan. Immigrants usually come from poorer countries, in my experience. Urban metropolis from New York to London have neighbourhoods named Chinatown and little Italy and little India – countries where large number of residents faced poverty and fled to a better land. So it was a surprise to see a neighborhood of immigrants composed of people normally considered wealthy and privileged – in this case, the Japanese. Liberdade, a neighborhood in central São Paolo, hums with the Sunday fair common to Brazilian cities – except these stalls are full of paper origami, t-shirts with kanji calligraphy, red banners with Katakana and Portuguese signs. The stalls are manned by elderly Japanese, who sell their wares in jerky Portuguese. Stalls sell a sizzling yakissoba. The Japanese in Brazil

THE NATION WEEKLY MAGAZINE April 2004-February 2005

The Nation Weekly magazine was started by a team of journalists in conjunction with a publishing house on January 1, 2004. The magazine aimed to publish analysis and news of the current political situation in Nepal. Due to differences between the editorial and marketing team, the magazine shut down on February 1, 2005 - a year and a month after it began. The archive is now off the server. About 150 articles I wrote as staff writer are archived on this site.