Sao Paulo

Brazil is the country outside Japan with the largest Japanese community in the world, and Sao Paulo is the city in Brazil with the largest Japanese community.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Japanese immigration to Brazil, a series of events has been happening. Yesterday, Mrs. Karina Eiko Nakahara (photo) was elected Miss Brazil-Japan.

Karina is a 26 year old dentist, 1.70 m and 57 kg. To win the contest, she had to beat other Brazilian-Japanese women coming from 19 States of Brazil (Brazil has a total of 27 States, but in some of them the Japanese community is not very big).

Click here and here to see photos of some other participants of the contest.

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