Andréia Ferreira has been a journalist since 1989. After working in the Brazilian press she was a reporter and editor at the Jornal Tudo Bem and at the magazine Made in Japan in Tokyo from 1999 to 2001 and in São Paulo from 2002 to 2006. Today, she edits Japanese-themed books and is the editor of Gambare! Magazine. She’s currently getting her masters at the University of São Paulo, while working on a thesis about Brazilian journalism in Japan.  

Updated September 2009

Lili Kawamura has a doctorate in Sociology (University of São Paulo), Free-Docent in Education (UNICAMP – State University at Campinas, SP), Professor and Researcher at UNICAMP-FE (since 1987); Visiting Professor at the Masters Program of the University of Tsukuba in Japan (1997-2000); Visiting Professor at the University of Tenri in Japan (1994); Collaborating Professor at the University of Foreign Studies in Kyoto (1994) and Researcher at the University of Nagoya (1993-1994). She has published books and articles about Brazilian immigration to Japan, including “Where Are the Brazilians Going?” published by Unicamp, 2nd edition in 2003, and “Japanese Society and Brazilian Immigrants” (in Japanese), published by Akashi Shoten, Tokyo, 2000, in addition to articles in Brazilian and Japanese magazines.

Updated September 20, 2008

Kyoko Yanagida Nakagawa is a psychologist with a degree from the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo. She earned her master’s and doctorate degrees at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP). She has also had a scholarship from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Currently, she is the director of the Center of Information for Workers Abroad (CIATE) and is the coordinator of the ISEC’s Kaeru Project.

Updated October 2008

Masato Ninomiya is a practicing attorney in São Paulo. He is also a Doctor-Professor of the University of São Paulo Law School, Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo Law School, President of the CIATE - Information and Support Center for Workers Abroad, and First Vice-President of the Deliberative Council of the Brazilian Society of Japanese Culture and Social Welfare.

Updated April 2010

Célia Abe Oi is a journalist and historian. She has worked for periodicals with ties to the Nikkei community, was editor-in-chief of the Portuguese-language section of the Diário Nippak newspaper, and contributed to other newspapers as well. She has edited various publications, among them the Guide to Japanese Culture and the books Baseball – Stories of a Passion and Piratininga, 50 Years – A History of the Nisei Generation. Between 1998 and 2007, she was the executive director of the Museum of the History of Japanese Immigration to Brazil, and in 2008 worked in various projects for the centennial and was one of the curators of the exhibition Japan in Each One of Us.

Updated November 2008

Elisa Massae Sasaki has a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Japanese Sector of the Department. of Classical and Oriental Letters, from the Institute of Letters of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Doctoral Thesis entitled: “To be or not to be Japanese? The construction of the identity of Brazilians of Japanese descent in the context of international migration from contemporary Japan” (2009).

Updated March 2010