108 years after the Kasato Maru ship officially brought the first immigrants from Japan, Brazil is proud to be the country with the largest number of Nikkei in the world. With this information alone, perhaps an uninformed person might believe that due to the large number of Nikkei , Brazil …
In 1995, after finishing college and a one-year internship in Japan, I started working at a large multinational here in Brazil. Our lunch was served in the company cafeteria. One of the conversations during one of the lunches was about human metabolism, which is said to slow down after the …
Rrrring! Rrrrring! “Hello?” “Who am I speaking with?” “........” I needed some time to answer who it was. I was trying to recognize the voice at the other end of the line before saying my name. My relatives and my family and nihongogakko friends call me Mamoru, but everybody else …
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