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Acrobats who Performed in South America in the Early Meiji Period: Who Was the First Japanese to Reside in Brazil?—Part 1

The first Japanese to step foot in Brazil were the four castaways on Wakamiya-maru who arrived at S…

Masayuki Fukasawa • Jan. 24, 2022

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Episode 39 (Part 2) What Japan Gave Me

Read the first part >> Around 6pm that day, Sumie's mother returned home from work. "…

Laura Honda-Hasegawa • Jan. 17, 2022

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Tropical Oshougatsu

Another year is starting! Usually, it is time to reflect on how the year went, on everything we've …

Antonio Kotaro Hayata • Jan. 5, 2022

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Amigurumi intertwines colors and lives

Two yonsei who studied together and maintained their friendship, even with one of them changing sch…

Tatiana Maebuchi • Jan. 3, 2022

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The new challenges of the new era: connecting Nikkei across space, time and generations

My grandparents left Japan aboard the ship Ruys on July 11, 1957, heading to the port of Santos and…

Clarice Satiko Aoto • Dec. 8, 2021

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Brazil's Nikkei Shimbun to cease publication in December - President Raul Castro, who supported the Japanese language newspaper for 40 years - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> A second-generation CEO who pioneered the Portuguese-language newspaper market…

Masayuki Fukasawa • Dec. 1, 2021

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Brazil's Nikkei Shimbun to cease publication in December - President Raul Castro, who supported the Japanese language newspaper for 40 years - Part 1

On page 2 of the November 18, 2021 issue of the Nikkei Shimbun, President Raul Takagi announced tha…

Masayuki Fukasawa • Nov. 30, 2021

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

My dear family

Since I was born, my Obachan said that we would have to speak Nihongo because we looked Japanese, d…

Amelia Hisami Karuka Shoji • Oct. 19, 2021

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Colonia

On the night of September 11, 1966, the Sakura Maru that we were on dropped anchor in the port of S…

Maximiliano Shigeki Matsumura • Oct. 18, 2021

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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities

Way back

Recently, Ms. Yasuko found herself in a situation where she had to prove that she was... herself. H…

Stéphane Taguchi • Oct. 15, 2021

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