Entrevistas

1. Not too concerned about learning Japanese when he was growing up in Brazil (Portuguese)

2. The reason why the city of Oizumi became “Brazilian town” (Portuguese)

3. Japanese Brazilians living in Oizumi (Portuguese)

4. The reason why he immigrated to Japan (Portuguese)

5. Advantages of living in Japan (Portuguese)

6. More government supports in the city of Oizumi for Japanese Brazilians (Portuguese)

7. Oizumi, the Brazilian town in Japan (Portuguese)

8. Future of the Japanese Brazilian community in Japan (Portuguese)

9. Lehman shock’s impact on the Japanese Brazilian community in Japan (Portuguese)

10. 3.11 Earthquake stopped his business in Sendai and Fukushima (Portuguese)

11. Transition from a factory worker to starting his own business (Portuguese)

Shikota,Antonio Shinkiti

(n. 1962) Brasileño japonés, dueño de una tienda de productos brasileños en Japón.

3.11 Earthquake stopped his business in Sendai and Fukushima (Portuguese)

(Portuguese)

So this crisis for me was a good thing. Why? Because ... It's ... The crisis began exactly in 2008, 2009, right? That’s when the number of people began dwindling in the area of Sendai, Fuku ... Fukushima, because of the crisis. I had big companies there, in that region, that ... that ... that had a lot of Brazilians [living there], so with this crisis ... I stopped handling this region because it just wasn’t worth it – me traveling for kilometers and kilometers to Sendai, Fukushima. So, I stopped handling [these regions where there were fewer and fewer Brazilians] and … [He’s implying that he stopped doing business in that part of the country before the devastating March 2011 Tohoku earthquake]

Fecha: October 19, 2016

Zona: Gunma, Japan

Entrevista: Shigeru Kojima

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Antonio Shinkiti Shikota nació el 12 de setiembre de 1962, en la ciudad de Campinas, estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Sus padres nacieron en Japón. Deseando empezar su propio negocio, siguió el consejo de un amigo y fue a Japón. Inicialmente, trabajó en una fábrica y le llegó a gustar, por lo que se quedó en el país. Hoy en día, él vive en la ciudad de Oizumi y es el dueño de una tienda ambulante de productos brasileños en Japón. La tienda ambulante es un camión que ofrece una variedad de productos brasileños dirigidos básicamente a un público nikkei. Antonio ama mucho vivir en Japón y en la ciudad de Oizumi. (Febrero 2018)