18,782 students, 10,050 of them being female and 8,732 of them being male. Of the schools, 111 were in São Paulo State and 54 were in Paraná State. At the time, the São Paulo Metropolitan Area had 95 Japanese schools, and the schools in the city limits of São Paulo had 6,916 students. In the 1980s, São Paulo Japanese supplementary schools were larger than those in other communities. In general, during that decade a Brazilian supplementary Japanese school had one or two teachers responsible for around 60 students. Hiromi Shibata, a PhD student at the University of São Paulo, wrote the dissertation , published in 1997. Jeff Lesser, author of Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil, wrote that the author "suggests" that the Japanese schools in São Paulo "were as much an affirmation of Nipo-Brazilian identity as they were of Japanese nationalism." Notable persons Arts Erica Awano, artist and author Roger Cruz, comic book artist Fabio Ide, actor and model Yuu Kamiya, manga artist and novelist Daniel Matsunaga, actor, and model Lovefoxxx (Luísa Hanae Matsushita), lead singer of CSS Carol Nakamura, model and actress Ruy Ohtake, architect Tikashi Fukushima, artist (originally from Sōma, Japan) Tomie Ohtake, artist (Originally from Kyoto, Japan) Oscar Oiwa, artist Leandro Okabe, model Lisa Ono, singer Ryot (Ricardo Tokumoto), cartoonist Akihiro Sato, actor and model Sabrina Sato, model and TV host Daniele Suzuki, actress and TV host Fernanda Takai, lead singer of Pato Fu Carlos Toshiki (Carlos Toshiki Takahashi), singer-songwriter Luana Tanaka, actress Tizuka Yamasaki, film director Mateus Asato, musician Business Teruaki Yamagishi, businessman and management consultant (Originally from Tokyo, Japan) Politics Luiz Gushiken, former minister of communications Newton Ishii, Federal Police agent Kim Kataguiri, organizer of the Free Brazil Movement Juniti Saito, former commander of the Brazilian Air Force Religious Júlio Endi Akamine, Roman Catholic archbishop Hidekazu Takayama, Assemblies of God pastor and politician Sports Luís Oyama, footballer Gabriel Kazu, footballer (Originally from Seki, Gifu, Japan) Sérgio Echigo, former footballer Sandro Hiroshi, former footballer Wagner Lopes, former footballer Ruy Ramos, former footballer Kazuyoshi Miura, footballer (who holds his Brazilian citizenship since the 1980s) - Originally from Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan Hugo Hoyama, table tennis player Vânia Ishii, judo wrestler Caio Japa, futsal player Kaisei Ichiro, sumo wrestler Stefannie Arissa Koyama, judoka (Originally from Gunma, Japan) Pedro Ken, footballer Bruna Leal, 2012 London Olympics gymnast Lyoto Machida, mixed martial arts fighter,