Read Part 1 >> Homecoming and us in Japan My father's first visit to his hometown was in 1970, the year of the Osaka Expo. He was astonished at the tremendous growth and development of Japan. He changed to a Japan Airlines flight in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and drank a …
I have written many articles on this website, "Discover Nikkei," about Japanese people in Latin America and Japan. I have nothing but gratitude for having had the opportunity to write down stories that should be recorded, such as the " City of Flowers: Escobar " in the suburbs of Buenos …
A year and a half has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but in Japan, seminars on the issue of aging among foreigners have been increasing recently. A symposium held in Nagoya at the end of March this year was a hybrid of face-to-face and online sessions, and I was …
Read Part 1 >> The industry in which Japanese people in Uruguay were most often engaged was floriculture, and it seems that until about 40 years ago, it was possible to make a good profit from the floriculture business. The city of Escobar, a suburb of Buenos Aires where I …
Uruguay (official name: Oriental Republic of Uruguay) is a small country in South America with an area of just 170,000 square kilometers (about half the size of Japan) and a population of 3.5 million, roughly the same as the city of Yokohama. The country recently became a hot topic in …
Governor Kaneko, a former judge, served as the governor of Kagawa Prefecture for six terms, a total of 24 years, from 1950. He was also one of the key figures in spreading the prefecture's specialty, "Sanuki udon," throughout the country. During his term in office in 1956, he was invited …
Professor Imayuki calmly analyzes the issues he sees and hears about in the field and has written down his own theories and mindset regarding "moving overseas," so I would like to introduce some of these to you. The education problem in the interior of Brazil and Paraguay is serious, with …
Modern Japanese overseas immigration began with 153 Japanese who arrived in Hawaii in 1868, as a result of an agreement between the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Meiji government's new nation-building was a very ambitious endeavor, and it also focused on trade and industrial development. However, unfavorable …
Currently, Japan has the highest enrollment and completion rates in the world, with nearly 100% of students completing compulsory education and 98% continuing on to high school. The university enrollment rate is 53.7%, which is not particularly high among developed countries, but when combined with the vocational school enrollment rate …
Located 50 kilometers north of Argentina’s capital city, Buenos Aires, Escobar is known as “the city of flowers.”1 A flower festival is held in October every year, where they showcase new breed varieties from in and out of the country and have a parade with floats covered with flowers such …
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