Masayuki Fukasawa

Born on November 22, 1965, in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. In 1992, he went to Brazil for the first time and worked as an intern at Paulista Shimbun (Japanese newspaper in Brazil). In 1995, he went back to Japan and worked with Brazilians at a factory in Oizumi-machi, Gunma Prefecture. He wrote a book, Parallel World (Ushio Publishing) about his experiences there and received Ushio Nonfiction Award in 1999. He returned to Brazil in 1999. Beginning in 2001, he worked at Nikkey Shimbun and became the editor-in-chief in 2004. He has been an editor-in-chief of Diário Brasil Nippou since 2022.

Updated January 2022

Stories from This Author

Dedicated to improving the lives of the Amazon River people: Japanese people taking on social inequality

Part 1: Kicking a child down the stairs

Jan. 15, 2009 • Masayuki Fukasawa

The reality I saw while traveling on a budget Few people have been as kind and devoted to the Brazilian common people as he is. Toru Sadamori (40, from Chiba Prefecture) is not an immigrant. However, he is an unusual case, having spent 17 years in Brazil since graduating from university. He has lived in the favela of Monte Azul in Sao Paulo, in the state of Ceara, and currently in Manicole in the state of Amazonas, where he is …

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