in Argentina, and concentrates many institutions such as schools, restaurants and training centers. Brazil Liberdade is the Japanese district in São Paulo, Brazil. São Paulo metropolitan area is the city that has the largest Japanese population outside Japan and the largest population of people that have Japanese descent. Canada Several Japantowns emerged in the British Columbia's Lower Mainland during the early 20th century, including Japantown, Vancouver. Steveston in Richmond, British Columbia was another community whose population in 1942 was primarily made up of people of Japanese descent. However, these communities were dispersed after Japanese Canadians were interned during World War II. In the early 21st century, a Little Japan has emerged around Bay and Dundas Street in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian municipalities with Japanese populations higher than the national average (0.3%) include: Richmond, British Columbia (2%) Lethbridge, Alberta (1.9%) Burnaby, British Columbia (1.7%) Vancouver, British Columbia (1.7%) North Vancouver, British Columbia (1.6%) North Vancouver (district municipality), British Columbia (1.5%) Port Coquitlam, British Columbia (1.4%) West Vancouver, British Columbia (1.2%) Coquitlam, British Columbia (1%) Kamloops, British Columbia () Port Moody, British Columbia (1%) Calgary, Alberta (0.6%) - 29 Street SW Richmond Hill, Ontario (0.5%) Toronto, Ontario (0.5%) Markham, Ontario (0.4%) Mexico Little Tokyo, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City this neighborhood in the Cuauhtémoc district is home to many Japanese establishments from restaurants, ramen houses, Japanese bars, Japanese book stores, Japanese hotels and many other businesses catering to the Japanese community in the city as well as to the locals and tourists. Future plans for the neighborhood include a welcoming torii and Japanese style lanterns along the streets on Little Tokyo as designation markers of the "Barrio Japonés" and many other cultural markers. Aguilas, Mexico City neighborhood in Mexico City. This part of the city is home to many Mexicans of Japanese origin.. Japanese clubs and restaurants as well as the japanese gardens. This area was mainly settled by many Japanese during WWII as the Mexican government concentrated many Japanese nationals in this area. Today it is a thriving part of the city with many Japanese institutions for the Nikkei community. Acacoyagua, Chiapas. Acacoyagua is to this day the oldest Japanese colony in Latin America. It is a colony from the late 1800's where Japan sent off citizens to populate other parts of the world because of overpopulation at the time. The Enomoto Colony tried to farm coffee seeing the success of the neighboring German