Entrevistas

1. Moved to Japan as my dekasegi father called on me (Japanese)

2. Facing hardships in Japan (Japanese)

3. The difference between Nikkei community in Oizumi and Brazil (Japanese)

4. Change in community after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (Japanese)

5. Accepted by Japanese society as I learned more Japanese (Japanese)

6. From being a dekasegi to a long-term resident (Japanese)

7. Challenges of Brazilian community in Japan (Japanese)

8. Change of identity (Japanese)

9. The term Nikkei (Japanese)

10. My daughter’s identity (Japanese)

11. Starting my own business as a graphic designer after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (Japanese)

12. On becoming a Japanese national (Japanese)

13. Letting people know I am from Brazil (Japanese)

14. Oizumi-machi is my hometown (Japanese)

Hirano,Paulo Issamu

(n. 1979) Brasileiro sansei de Oizumi-machi, província de Gunma. Dono de um escritório de design.

Starting my own business as a graphic designer after the collapse of Lehman Brothers (Japanese)

(Japanese) It had a big impact on Oizumi-machi. The collapse of Lehman Brothers especially had a big one, with many people losing jobs and Brazilian stores losing sales.

But there was a positive side, too. As I mentioned earlier, there were more people who wanted to study Japanese and Brazilian businesses in need to get more Japanese customers, so personally I saw a chance there. As I decided to do graphic design in a place where there were few people fluent in Japanese, I asked myself what my strength was. Becoming a graphic designer with Japanese skills was the only thing that came to mind, so it might have been the perfect timing.

I started my business in June, 2009, and it was just around the time when Brazilian business owners were struggling, with an increasing demand for Japanese menus and guides, so using my strength, or what I was good at, I was able to start my work right away. It wasn’t always easy, but it was good that such circumstances triggered a move and made a big change eventually.

Data: October 18, 2016

Localização Geográfica: Gunma, Japan

Entrevistado: Shigeru Kojima

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Nasceu em janeiro de 1979 em São Paulo. Sansei, cujos avós são originários de Kumamoto, cresceu no Jardim Monte Kemel, bairro perto da Liberdade onde há muitos nikkeis. Em 1989, imigrou para o Japão, onde já morava seu pai decasségui e passou a viver em Oizum-machi. No começo, a língua era uma barreira, mas à medida que avançava no estudo do japonês, foi fazendo muitos amigos e, hoje, colabora no desenvolvimento da comunidade nipo-brasileira através da língua japonesa e seu trabalho como designer gráfico. Em 2009 tornou-se independente e abriu seu escritório de design; publica um jornal local com informações sobre Oizumi-machi. Está envidando esforços para concretizar seu sonho que é fazer de Oizumi-machi “a terra dos brasileiros”. (Agosto de 2017)