Asakusa Samba Carnival
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Asakusa Samba Carnival | |
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Asakusa Samba Carnival Logo | |
Status | active |
Genre | Annual Brazilian Carnaval Parade |
Frequency | Annually |
Venue | Asakusa District |
Location(s) | Tokyo, Japan |
Country | Japan |
Years active | 37 |
Inaugurated | 1981 |
Participants | 200 |
Attendance | 500,000 |
Website | |
http://www.asakusa-samba.org |
Japan holds the largest samba parade outside of Brazil each year in August in the Asakusa District of Tokyo. Traditional
History
It is a little know fact that the largest Japanese immigrant population is located in Brazil where Japanese immigrants started their immigration in 1908. Today, there are over 1.4 million Japanese Brazilians in the country. With so many Japanese in Brazil, it was inevitable that samba would enter into Japan at some point and in 1981, the first samba parade took place. The very first samba parade can be seen on this video:
Parade
The samba parade takes place in the Asakusa district in Tokyo Japan that attracts a half a million spectators, the biggest crowd in the world to see a samba parade.Samba Groups
There are two samba groups in the Asakusa Samba Parade: League S1 and League S2. Just as in Brazil, the samba schools compete and groups are moved from group to group depending on their placement.
League S1
- GRCES Vermelho e Branco
- Liberty
- Flor de Matsudo Cereja
- GRES Sol Nascente
- GRES Alegria
- GRES Liberdade
- GRES União dos Amadores
- GRES Nakamise Barbaros
- Escola de Samba Saudi
League S2
- AES Unidios do Urbana
- Kanta Brazil Marching Room
- GRES Festanca
- GRES Estrangeiros
- ICU Lambs
- GRES Império do Samba
- Amigos Calientes
- Bloco Arrastão