In the first place, there is a common understanding among Brazilians that nothing could be more incompatible than "Japonês" (Japanese) and "samba." For example, the author played percussion in several samba teams in the city of Sao Paulo for about 10 years, and felt frustrated when he heard a sambista …
A federal prison was built on Alcatraz Island in California, in the United States, which became known as the impossible-to-break “prison island” and was later featured in the movie Escape from Alcatraz (made in 1979 and directed by Don Siegel) starring Clint Eastwood. There is in fact a Brazilian version …
Read Part 1 >> It heals the turbulent world caused by the fight to win or lose, and spreads to the masses. In November 1948, after the end of the war, in the midst of the Japanese community being divided by the struggle for victory and defeat, the monthly haiku …
Haiku that crossed the ocean with immigrants When Professor Hosokawa Shuhei (International Research Center for Japanese Studies), who won the Yomiuri Literature Prize in 2009 for his book Tooku arite tsukuroku (What We Make in the Distance) (Misuzu Shobo), an interpretation of Brazilian immigrant literature, gave a lecture here, he …
The Japanese Pavilion in Ibirapuera Park, known as the "Central Park of São Paulo," held a ceremony to celebrate its 60th anniversary on August 29th, welcoming the 15th head of the Urasenke school of tea ceremony, Sen Genshitsu, and others from Japan. The building was designed to resemble the Katsura …
“Italian” sausage not eaten by Italians “Italian people do not eat our Mortadella (Bologna sausage).” I remember clearly a sense of disappointment in his voice in the interview I conducted with the one and only, hardcore Italian-Brazilian president Mario Benedetti (third generation, age 56 at the time) back in 2010.
一枚の金属板が変えた日本移民の運命サッカーＷ杯がブラジルで開催された6～7月の間に1万人近い日本人観戦者が訪れた。その中のほぼ誰も足を運んでいないが、明治期の歴史が好きな日本人なら見逃せない重要な場所がある。
『火の鳥』『ブラック・ジャック』などの傑作を次々に発表し、存命中から〝マンガの神様〟と呼ばれていた天才漫画家・手塚治虫（1928―1989年）を知らない日本人はいない。しかし、彼の未完の絶筆『グリンゴ』がブラジル日系社会をモデルにしていたことを知る人は少ない。
In early May, a month before the 2014 World Cup, a judo film called A Grande Vitória (directed by Stefano Capuzzi) was released nationwide in Brazil. It’s a touching story of one juvenile, abandoned by his Italian immigrant father and raised in poverty, who finds a road to success in …
「今でも空手の訓練を毎日続けているよ」。そういいながら有名な法律家イヴェス・ガンドラ・マルチンスさん（79、Ives Gandra da Silva Mrtins）は4月15日、手刀の構えをして「今でも板一枚なら割れる」と言った。日本文化関係にゆかりがある人物としてはまったく知られておらず、驚くような言葉から取材は始まった。
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