Friday, June 20, 2008

Japanese prince visits Sao Paulo for immigration celebrations / Agence France Presse, 18 June 2008
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iYF7B_ViX9FLyC_Fyi8z3jW8xqUg
"Prince Naruhito arrived in Sao Paulo on Thursday for a four-day stay in Brazil's biggest city that will include side-trips to towns that featured strongly historically for the Japanese immigrants ... The first of the Japanese who went to Brazil, 781 of them, arrived on a ship on June 18, 1908 to work in the booming coffee plantations around Sao Paulo."