We visited the museum of Japanese immigration on our p-day expedition last week. We learned that most of the Japanese came to Brazil to work in the coffee fields after Brazil freed the slaves. They brought with them their wonderful knowledge and skill in farming vegetables. They introduced most of the vegetables that are in the Brazilian diet. We learned that there were two groups of Japanese. there were those who stayed loyal to the emperor of Japan and those who embrace Brazil as their new home. Many did not stay long and returned to Japan but others stayed on and flourished with the much longer growing season. Brazil today has the largest population of Japanese outside of Japan .