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

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 costumes (social) dekasegi educação trabalhadores estrangeiros línguas Nikkeis no Japão

Data: October 18, 2016

Localização Geográfica: Gunma, Japan

Entrevistado: Shigeru Kojima

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

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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)

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