After finishing the visit to the company, I casually looked at the used book section at the entrance to the editorial department, and saw the back of a man with a familiar, distinctive beard. "We have a rare visitor," I said, and it turned out to be a ceramic artist, …
"Due to security issues, please don't use my name or photograph," I was told during a conversation I had just had with the Japanese-Brazilian founder of FAST SHOP, the exclusive distributor of Toto toilet seats and Washlet products, at the launch ceremony for the company's toilet seats and Washlet products, …
Against the Brazilian military regime (1964-1985), which controlled freedom of speech with tanks and machine guns, young Japanese people took up the weapon of manga and fought for freedom of expression. The three people who were honored on March 17th at the 35th anniversary of the Brazilian Cartoonists Association (Abrademi) …
Read Part 1 >> If you want to call Brazil your "home," plant a cherry tree. For prewar immigrants, seeing cherry blossoms was a dream, as they were something only found in Japan. Seedlings and seeds of commercial crops such as pepper, jute, tea, and many vegetables had been brought …
"It looks just like the tea fields in Shizuoka." When I went to cover the tea fields in Registro, a coastal area about 190 kilometers southwest of São Paulo, I was reminded of the scenes back home. However, it is black tea, not green tea. I heard that the raw …
Read Part 10 >> [Nagai] Oh, we haven't talked about working holidays yet... [Fukasawa] Ah, that's right, WH! [Nagai] Isn't this important? (laughs) [Fukazawa] After all, it would be a mistake to have a visa system that is only for Japanese descendants. I would like to see an agreement between …
Read Part 9 >> [Nagai] But I wonder why Japanese people preserve their traditions. Is it a characteristic of Asian people? [Fukazawa] It's because they are different from the European culture that is the basis of Brazilian society, and I personally think that the more discrimination there is, the more …
Read Part 8 >> Are there no Japanese people working in Japanese convenience stores? [Nagai] If you look at the statistics on foreigners in Japan, you can see that when I came to Brazil from Japan, there were about 100,000 Vietnamese people. But in the last three years, that number …
Read Part 7 >> [Nagai] That's right. So, the case of Brazil is interesting. If you're born in Brazil, you're Brazilian, right? And if you're born in Japan, you're Brazilian, right? Well, there was a time when the constitution changed and people born abroad became stateless, but now all children …
Read Part 6 >> Wouldn't it be good if Japan had a "visit visa"? [Fukazawa] That got me thinking, it seems like the majority of Japanese people already have relatives who are living permanently and settled in Japan. So I think it's possible for those people to "invite" them. And …
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