Entrevistas

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)

Hirano,Paulo Issamu

(n. 1979) Brasileiro sansei de Oizumi-machi, província de Gunma. Dono de um escritório de design.

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

(Japanese) I think I came to Japan in September or October in 1989. I came to work, I came to Japan for my father’s work. At that time, he was living in Japan as a dekasegi.

At first, my father came to Japan with some relatives and I think they were planning to go back in a few years. He wasn’t going to stay in Japan for a long time, so with small belongings, with minimum belongings he came to Japan, just my father as a dekasegi and once he earned some money he was going to stay in Japan, uh, I mean, he was planning to go back to Brazil, so at first not every member of the family came here. My father and some relatives came here first, and once they started living, they found that Japan was a very comfortable place, so he asked us – why don’t you all come here? Then I moved here with my mother and brothers together with some other relatives.

Brasil dekasegi trabalhadores estrangeiros Japão Nikkeis no Japão

Data: October 18, 2016

Localização Geográfica: Gunma, Japan

Entrevistado: Shigeru Kojima

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Nasceu em janeiro de 1979 em São Paulo. Sansei, cujos avós são originários de Kumamoto, cresceu no Jardim Monte Kemel, bairro perto da Liberdade onde há muitos nikkeis. Em 1989, imigrou para o Japão, onde já morava seu pai decasségui e passou a viver em Oizum-machi. No começo, a língua era uma barreira, mas à medida que avançava no estudo do japonês, foi fazendo muitos amigos e, hoje, colabora no desenvolvimento da comunidade nipo-brasileira através da língua japonesa e seu trabalho como designer gráfico. Em 2009 tornou-se independente e abriu seu escritório de design; publica um jornal local com informações sobre Oizumi-machi. Está envidando esforços para concretizar seu sonho que é fazer de Oizumi-machi “a terra dos brasileiros”. (Agosto de 2017)