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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).
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Special roundtable discussion: What should the fourth generation visa be like? - As a framework for developing human resources who will lead the future of Japan-Brazil exchange -
Part 5: Is Level 4 Japanese a requirement for fourth-generation Japanese visas?
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Special roundtable discussion: What should the fourth generation visa be like? - As a framework for developing human resources who will lead the future of Japan-Brazil exchange -
Part 4: Fourth-generation immigrant visas as a human resource development system
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Oct. 8, 2018
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Special roundtable discussion: What should the fourth generation visa be like? - As a framework for developing human resources who will lead the future of Japan-Brazil exchange -
Part 3: Former dekasegi student, Shimano Patricia - Returning to Brazil
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Special roundtable discussion: What should the fourth generation visa be like? - As a framework for developing human resources who will lead the future of Japan-Brazil exchange -
Part 2: Former dekasegi worker's daughter, Patricia Shimano - High school admission and the sudden death of her mother
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Sept. 24, 2018
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Special roundtable discussion: What should the fourth generation visa be like? - As a framework for developing human resources who will lead the future of Japan-Brazil exchange -
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Sept. 17, 2018
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