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1 JAPANESE BRAZILIANS A PHENOMENAL ETHNIC MIX BY PAULO SIQUEIRA & nadia shira cohen parallelozero

2 Hamamatsu, Japan. Hamamatsu City.

3 Although made up of two of the most opposing cultures, Japanese Brazilians are a phenomenal ethnic mix, which manifested in the beginning of the 20th century when Brazil abolished slavery and searched eagerly for migrant workers to fill their places. In 1907 an accord was signed between the governments of Brazil and Japan to allow Japanese migrant workers into the country to take up the work of former slaves, mainly on coffee plantations. The migration continued to form what is now the largest diaspora of Japanese in the world, outside of Japan. In 1991 under a Japanese government scheme, Brazilians of Japanese decent, known as Nikkeijin were offered working visas in order to provide badly needed labor in Japans numerous factories. The Japanese government had assumed that the Brazilians would fit well into the close minded society yet they were surprised to find that most held closely to their Brazilian heritage and many children struggled in Japanese schools with bullying and the Japanese language, subsequently causing problems with marginalization and a lack of integration. Today the Nikkei are a culture within themselves, neither completely Brazilian nor Japanese. Their population has dwindled since the 2008 economic crisis hit and many were given financial incentives by the Japanese government to return to

4 Handa, Japan. A member of the Comitiva os Marvadus Sertaneja club of Nikkei driving through Handa in his van which has 6 TVs.

5 Hamamatsu, Japan.Escola Alegria, a Brazilian school which educates a number of Brazilian immigrant children.

6 Hamamatsu, Japan. Gabriel, 4 years old who was born in Japan to Brazilian Japanese parents, was attending a Japanese school and learning Japanese but was interrupted when his parents moved to another neighborhood.

7 Kanagawa, Japan.Ewerthon Tobace, a second generation Brazilian Japanese Nikkei who has been living in Tokyo for 12 years and works as a journalist, practices Judo in his spare time, as he has done since childhood in Brazil.

8 Chiryu, Japan. Wesley Gabriel Santos fixes his hair in the mirror at his home in Chiryu. Wesley who is Brazilian Japanese Nikkei, was raised by his paternal grandparents in Brazil

9 Tokyo, Japan. Alegria Samba School Rehearsal in Northern Tokyo. Samba, mostly practiced by Japanese and not Japanese Brazilians was brought to Japan by a group of Japanese fanatics who had been to Brazil and experienced the dance, music and culture.

10 Chiryu, Japan. Arianne Hayasaka, 30 years old and of Brazilian Japanese ethnicity bathes her daughter in the sink of their apartment

11 Toyota, Japan. Joelma Ito who is married to a Brazilian Japanese Nikkei although is not Nikkei herself has set up a nail salon in her home in Homi Danchi,

12 Handa, Japan. A train station along the rail line which connects Toyota and Hamamatsu.

13 Chiryu, Japan. Rosana dresses her daughter Mariana Ishiy, 5 months for a birthday party.

14 Toyota, Japan.The home of Erika Rangui and Wellington Manduco, both Brazilian Japanese Nikkei.

15 Toyota, Japan. Sarah Rangui, 4 years old at her dinner table in her home in Homi Danchi.

16 Toyota, Japan.An arial view of Homi Danchi, the public housing complex in Toyota

17 Gifu, Japan. A religious ceremony of Umbanda, a religious practice created in Brazil which blends African religions with Catholicism.

18 Handa, Japan.The Comitiva os Marvadus Sertaneja club of Nikkei play music and BBQ on a Sunday.

19 Seoul (South Korea), una ragazza esce dalla stazione della metropolitana di Yongsan Toyota, Japan.Thais Leticia de Souza Lizita who is Brazilian Japanese Nikkei and was born and raised in Japan,

20 Seoul Toyota, (South Japan.Erika Korea), Rangui una ragazza does her esce daughter dalla stazione Sarah s hair della in metropolitana their home in di Homi Yongsan Danchi

21 Seoul (South Korea), una ragazza esce dalla stazione della metropolitana di Yongsan Chiryu, Japan.Chiryu public housing where a mix of Japanese and Brazilian Japanese Nikkei live.

22 Seoul (South Korea), una ragazza esce dalla stazione della metropolitana di Yongsan Toyota, Japan.Wellington Manduco s tattoos which show his dual heritage (Indian and dragon), Brazilian Japanese Nikkei, at his home in Homi Danchi

23 Seoul (South Korea), una ragazza esce dalla stazione della metropolitana di Yongsan Chiryu, Japan. A Brazilian Japanese Nikkei boy stands outside of a park in the public housing complex of Chiryu. Danchi

24 Seoul (South Korea), una ragazza esce dalla stazione della metropolitana di Yongsan Hamamatsu, Japan. Mariana Ishiy, 5 months old and Brazilian Japanese was born in Japan with a heart defect which will require a complicated surgery.

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