Born in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture in November 1965. He traveled to Brazil for the first time in 1992 and worked as a trainee journalist for the Japanese language newspaper Paulista Shimbun. He returned to Japan in 1995 and worked in a factory with Brazilians in Oizumi Town, Gunma Prefecture, where he wrote a book about his experience, which won the Ushio Non-Fiction Award in 1999 and was published as Parallel World (Ushio Publishing). He returned to Brazil in 1999. He started working at the Nikkei Shimbun in 2001 and became its editor-in-chief in 2004. His books include If a Grain of Rice Dies (Mumeisha, 2014) and The Untold Tale of the Winners (Mumeisha, 2017).
The Aftertaste of Taisho Democracy in Brazil: The Stories of Three Japanese-Brazilian Women Artists - Part 2
Sept. 20, 2023
The Aftertaste of Taisho Democracy Remains in Brazil: The Stories of Three Japanese-Brazilian Women Artists - Part 1
Sept. 19, 2023
Japanese school where the students suffered repeated persecution during the war = Female students who listened to the Emperor's radio broadcast while crying - Part 2
Aug. 23, 2023
Japanese school suffered repeated persecution during the war = Female student in tears as she listened to the Emperor's radio broadcast - Part 1
Aug. 22, 2023
Half a century since the last immigrant ship = "People change when they cross borders" - Part 2
July 19, 2023
Half a century since the last migrant ship = "People change when they cross borders" - Part 1
July 12, 2023
The secret to living to 100 years old in good health - Yoshiaki Umezaki, a walking dictionary of immigration history - Part 2
April 12, 2023
The secret to living to 100 years old in good health - Yoshiaki Umezaki, a walking dictionary of immigration history - Part 1
April 11, 2023
Kaoru Higuchi, a former immigrant to Brazil and resident in Los Angeles, is a photographer at Jornal do Brasil.
Jan. 25, 2023
Commonalities between the films "Gaijin" and "Familia"
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