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1. Moved to Japan as my dekasegi father called on me (Japanese)

2. Facing hardships in Japan (Japanese)

3. The difference between Nikkei community in Oizumi and Brazil (Japanese)

4. Change in community after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (Japanese)

5. Accepted by Japanese society as I learned more Japanese (Japanese)

6. From being a dekasegi to a long-term resident (Japanese)

7. Challenges of Brazilian community in Japan (Japanese)

8. Change of identity (Japanese)

9. The term Nikkei (Japanese)

10. My daughter’s identity (Japanese)

11. Starting my own business as a graphic designer after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (Japanese)

12. On becoming a Japanese national (Japanese)

13. Letting people know I am from Brazil (Japanese)

14. Oizumi-machi is my hometown (Japanese)

Paulo Issamu Hirano

(n. 1979) Sansei brasileño reside en Oizumi-machi, Prefectura de Gunma. Administra una oficina de Diseño Gráfico.

Facing hardships in Japan (Japanese)

(Japanese) The first hardship I faced was the language, as you can imagine. In the early days, of course, I could only speak Portuguese, but yes, I went to Japanese language school, so I think I was able to read and write hiragana and katakana at certain level.

I started going to a public school soon after I came to Japan, and since Japanese schools do not flunk students, I was at the age of fifth graders, so in the elementary school, I took fifth-grade classes, and I couldn’t read the textbooks. I remember that it was hard to follow the classes. It was the language. I think I had a hard time with the language.

Other than the language, I also had a hard time with customs. What we thought was common was not acceptable in Japan. For example, in Brazil we brought chewing gum, snacks, and money to school and wore whatever we liked to wear. And I went to school in Japan with the same mindset, I mean at first, so people around me might have thought that I was strange, they might have felt that way. But no one said anything to me before I came to Japan or even after, in the early days here, so what I thought was acceptable might have disturbed other children.

Brasil costumbres (social) dekasegi educación trabajadores extranjeros idiomas nikkeis en Japón

Fecha: October 18, 2016

Zona: Gunma, Japan

Entrevista: Shigeru Kojima

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

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Paulo nació en enero de 1979, en Sao Paulo, Brasil. Sus abuelos son oriundos de la Prefectura de Kumamoto, por lo que Paulo es un nikkei de 3º generación o sea “sansei”. Se crió en el Barrio Monte Kemel que está cerca del famoso barrio oriental Liberdade. En 1898 viene a Japón porque su padre ya trabajaba como “dekassegi”. Desde ese entonces, reside en la localidad de Oizumi, Prefectura de Gunma. Al comienzo tuvo dificultades de comunicación porque no hablaba el idioma japonés pero a medida que fue aprendiendo comenzó a tener amistades japonesas. Hoy en dia, es diseñador gráfico y con su nivel de japonés apoya a la comunidad brasileña local. En el 2009 se independiza y forma su propio Estudio. También, edita un free paper (revista de distribución gratuita con publicidad) para Oizumi-machi y anhela que esta ciudad sea un verdadero Barrio Brasileño “Brasil Town”. (Agosto de 2017)

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