What are the roots of the well-established Italian and Japanese communities living in Sao Paulo today?
In the late 1800s, immigrants from Italy and Japan came to Brazil to work in the coffee industry.
The baking industry drew many Italian migrants while the sushi industry drew many Japanese migrants.
Nobody knows, because this is a social science question that is yet to be solved. In the mid 1900s, immigrants from Italy and Japan came to Brazil to work in the country's newly-formed automobile industry.
Italian and Japanese immigrants arrived in late 1800s intent on working in the Amazon rainforest, clearing land and starting their own farming and ranching homesteads.