Melina Sakiyama
Melina Sakiyama is a Nikkei Brazilian who is studying for her master's degree in Environmental Education in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. She came to Japan on April, 2009 as the sixth generation scholars for the Nippon Foundation Nikkei Scholarship.
Updated August 2009
Stories from This Author
To teach and to be taught
Aug. 28, 2009 • Melina Sakiyama
An experience with Brazilian students at SEBS – Sociedade Educacional Brazilian School – Minokamo, Gifu. Every year the NFSA organize activities with Latin schools in Japan, that mostly, attend children whose parents are working as dekassegis. These schools follow a Brazilian or a Peruvian educational system and they aim to educate children as if they were in their country of origin. However, reflecting the situation of the entire dekassegi community here in Japan, these schools have to deal with a …
