The story of Nakamura’s family began in 1929, when they came from Japan to Brazil looking for better life and work conditions. They initially settled in the municipality of Bastos, in the upper São Paulo region, and they have dedicated themselves to agriculture, cultivating various types of cereals and cotton. In the 1940s they moved to Londrina, in Parana state, and began growing coffee.

Claudio Nakamura was born in 1956, at the height of coffee growing in Parana. He finished basic education in Londrina and went to UFPR Agronomy College in Curitiba, from 1974 to 1978. In 1975 there was a great frost, known as “black frost”, which devastated most of the coffee growing of Parana and São Paulo. The coffee plantation was completely eradicated and it has begun the cereals growing phase and ramie plantation for fiber extractions. At this time, part of the family moved to the Alta Mogiana region, in the municipality of Franca, seeking to restart the coffee growing, where they have had a good result.