TO GO WITH STORY BC-LIFE-BRAZIL-JAPAN - General view of one of the main avenues in Sao Paulo's Liberdade neighborhood; home to the biggest Japanese community outside of Japan, Sao Paulo March 24. Liberdade used to be a cozy place where Japanese immigrants found comfort in the Oriental culture hidden inside tropical Brazil. But today, drug traffickers, prostitutes and the homeless infiltrate from dilapidated downtown district, threatening to turn the once orderly haven into a den of crime.

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