Hideaki Kanno
An economic journalist, he first encountered Brazil in 1986 while working for a Japanese economic magazine, and has since been covering Japanese-Brazilian business owners from the perspective of an immigrant. His books include "The Real Faces of Japanese-Brazilian Business Owners" (featuring 100 people in total in two volumes).
(Updated December 2020)
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Japanese-American business leader in Japan - President Mogi Shinji, active in the construction industry
Dec. 9, 2020 • Hideaki Kanno
It has been exactly 30 years since Shinji Mogi came to Japan. He visited the disaster-stricken areas 17 times to provide support after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and has been involved in support and relief efforts in disaster-stricken areas nationwide, including the Kumamoto earthquake and the floods in Wakayama and Nagano. He is also known as a volunteer activist who has been working for 25 years as the representative director of a Brazilian NPO in Japan, supporting the welfare, …
