Brazil has the
biggest Japanese Community outside Japan. The migrants’ saga started
100 years ago when the first ship, called Kasato Maru, left Kobe in Japan,
to Brazil in search of better living conditions.
Inspired in Rousseau, Marx and in the Bible one particular Japanese community
was created in Sao Paulo, in a place located 600 km away from the capital.
The Yuba Community is a farm founded in 1935 by a migrant called Isamu Yuba,
who left Kobe, Japan, in the 1920s.
The farm is sustained by three principles: to live off the land, maintain a daily reverence, and engage in artistic practice (music, dance and theatre). There are no walls or gates to protect the community, and the love for the arts is as important as the love for the work on the fields.
There is no salary at the end of the month, but everyone has home, food and health assistance guaranteed.The official language is Japanese and some of its residents will not speak Portuguese at all, specially the kids and the elderly.