Hidemitsu Miyamura

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Born on January 1, 1944 in Paraguay Paulista as the eldest son of Miyamura Tokimitsu and Toshiko. He studied Japanese in his childhood in Apucarana, North Paraná. In 1967, he graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Paraná. In 1968, he joined NEC Brazil, and retired in 2001. That same year, he became independent and developed a new recycling industry. He and his wife, Alice Kayoko, have one son (Douglas Hidehiro) and one daughter (Erika Hiromi). In 2005, he published a collection of essays titled "An Encounter That Was So Far Away," which he submitted to the São Paulo Newspaper and other publications. His hobby is reading historical books.

(Updated January 2013)

Stories from This Author

An encounter that was infinitely far away

Golden Days

Feb. 15, 2013 • Hidemitsu Miyamura

Memories from long ago remain in the mind, and when people who experienced those times talk about them, a moment filled with an indescribable sense of satisfaction drifts about, and the people watching are often deeply moved by it. Since I started listening to the stories of my late mother (84), my aunt Haruko (92), and my aunt Sumiko (80) and writing them down, I have had such experiences several times. It was when my aunt Sumiko started a story …

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An encounter that was infinitely far away

A Japanese Brazilian's New Year's Thoughts

Jan. 18, 2013 • Hidemitsu Miyamura

I was born on New Year's Day. My father's old diary tells me that I was born during the most extraordinary period in my parents' lives, wartime, when they were living in a room at Marubayashi, a small Japanese inn in the rural town of Paraguay Paulista, after the Japanese were ordered to leave Santos. In other words, this was my first New Year's Day in this world. My father wrote about this as follows: "At 10:40 a.m. on January …