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.

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

(Japanese) This might be because of the environment, but there aren’t many opportunities to meet people in the community in Japan. In São Paulo, where I was born and raised, we met almost every week. We got together and went to kaikan (hall). And we did karaoke, had karaoke practice, and sometimes had churrasco or Japanese dishes. Usually Sunday was our day off. Of course, in the morning, we had work at the fish shop, I mean my father did, so he didn’t have a whole day off, but we often spent weekends with friends and other family members. So we went out as a family or with friends and talked a lot together. But in Japan, we don’t do that very often. This is true within my family, too, and I think that the big difference is we don’t have many chances to get together.

Brasil comunidades Japão Nikkeis no Japão Oizumi Província de Gunma

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)