On January 1, 2019, the newspaper printed its last edition, with no specific plans to continue its operations online.
[3] Founded on October 8, 1946, the Journal São Paulo Shimbun was a vehicle of communication directed towards the Japanese-Brazilian community.
Businessman Mituto Mizumoto observed the need that Japanese immigrants had for their own newspaper which would publish facts about Brazil and Japan.
[3] In 2011, Scottish musician Momus discovered a copy of the newspaper at the Center for Overseas Migration and Cultural Interaction in Kobe, Japan and wrote "I want someone to make a typeface based on that masthead so I can use it for a future album cover.
"[7][8] In 2013, James Goggin created a typeface based on the masthead typography from the newspaper for Momus's album Bambi.