Alianza, where 1,000 Japanese families flocked during the Taisho Democracy period
Read Part 1 >>During the war, students were ordered to evacuate after their Japanese language documents were confiscated. June 20th: "There have been frequent incidents in which students' documents have been confiscated by the authorities over the Japanese language and other matters, and there is also the fear of searches …
100 people cried after hearing the Emperor's radio broadcast, and the windows fogged up. On August 15th, 78 years ago, at Sao Paulo Girls' School (now Akamagaoka Gakuin) in the city of Sao Paulo, female students with tense expressions on their faces waited with bated breath for the Emperor's surrender …
Read Part 1 >> His former boss was Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso. At the opening, Ship Members' Association Chairman Tsuji Tetsuzo (78 years old, from Hyogo Prefecture) began his speech with melancholy words hinting at the end, saying, "Today marks 50 years since the Nippon Maru arrived in Australia. …
Cruise ships serve as migrant ships to South America Half a century has passed since the last immigrant ship arrived - "The Equator Festival and the arrival in Santos were experiences that only those who had been on the ship could experience. It was a turning point in my life. …
Read Part 1 >> A poetry reading after watching "Flying Fish of Fujiyama" Umezaki settled in the Brazilian coffee plantations of Cafelandia and worked in the fields in the colony. During the war, Japanese immigrants were forbidden to move as enemy nationals, and had no choice but to devote themselves …
To reach 100 years of age in good health Yoshiaki Umezaki (born in Nara Prefecture), who lives in the southern part of Sao Paulo, turned 100 on March 21 and recently published his fourth collection of tanka. In addition, a grand 100th birthday celebration party was held on the 25th …
On November 3rd during the 7th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival, the "Nahato Comes to Machigwa: Global Uchinanchu and Machigwa Exhibition" was being held at the former Zakkabu section of Heiwa-dori Shopping Arcade in Naha City. I spoke to an elderly Japanese couple who were intently looking at the Brazilian immigrant exhibit, …
"Gaijin" depicts Brazilian society through the eyes of Japanese immigrants "It's like a story that transposes the hardships of Japanese immigrants in Brazil to modern Japan," I thought after watching the online preview of the movie "Família" (directed by Izuru Narushima, distributed by Kino Films). It has been showing at …
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