That population is concentrated in the industrial seaside town of hamamatsu in western japan , currently 19000 strong , having swollen from only 1500 in 1990 .
But the city office in hamamatsu , the carmaker 's headquarters , estimates that nearly half of the 27000 workers at its suzuki factory here are of brazilian descent .
但铃木总部所在地日本滨松的市政府估计，在铃木工厂里的2.7万名工人中，近一半人是巴西籍。
In hamamatsu city , south of tokyo , demand for foreign workers is shrinking so fast that a brazilian school which had 180 students in 2002 closed down at the end of december ; its numbers had fallen to 30 .
