Entrevistas

1. Moved to Japan as my dekasegi father called on me (Japanese)

2. Facing hardships in Japan (Japanese)

3. The difference between Nikkei community in Oizumi and Brazil (Japanese)

4. Change in community after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (Japanese)

5. Accepted by Japanese society as I learned more Japanese (Japanese)

6. From being a dekasegi to a long-term resident (Japanese)

7. Challenges of Brazilian community in Japan (Japanese)

8. Change of identity (Japanese)

9. The term Nikkei (Japanese)

10. My daughter’s identity (Japanese)

11. Starting my own business as a graphic designer after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (Japanese)

12. On becoming a Japanese national (Japanese)

13. Letting people know I am from Brazil (Japanese)

14. Oizumi-machi is my hometown (Japanese)

Hirano,Paulo Issamu

(n. 1979) Brasileiro sansei de Oizumi-machi, província de Gunma. Dono de um escritório de design.

Challenges of Brazilian community in Japan (Japanese)

(Japanese) What they need to change now is how they serve customers. Of course, they have their own Brazilian style and they want to keep that in the future, but in reality some businesses just cannot survive with Brazilian customers alone, so when Japanese customers visit them, they need to be able to serve them like other Japanese stores do. I think that it determines whether they can make it or not in the long run, so as one big challenge, improving service is a must, I think.

But of course, it’s not that simple. I don’t want them to lose their uniqueness and since Oizumi-machi is a place for people to relax, they should remain as a place to give comfort to Brazilians - with the Brazilian, warm way of serving customers – but at the same time change to attract Japanese customers, ideally.

Data: October 18, 2016

Localização Geográfica: Gunma, Japan

Entrevistado: Shigeru Kojima

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Nasceu em janeiro de 1979 em São Paulo. Sansei, cujos avós são originários de Kumamoto, cresceu no Jardim Monte Kemel, bairro perto da Liberdade onde há muitos nikkeis. Em 1989, imigrou para o Japão, onde já morava seu pai decasségui e passou a viver em Oizum-machi. No começo, a língua era uma barreira, mas à medida que avançava no estudo do japonês, foi fazendo muitos amigos e, hoje, colabora no desenvolvimento da comunidade nipo-brasileira através da língua japonesa e seu trabalho como designer gráfico. Em 2009 tornou-se independente e abriu seu escritório de design; publica um jornal local com informações sobre Oizumi-machi. Está envidando esforços para concretizar seu sonho que é fazer de Oizumi-machi “a terra dos brasileiros”. (Agosto de 2017)