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Facing hardships in Japan (Japanese)
Paulo Issamu Hirano October 18, 2016
(Japanese) The first hardship I faced was the language, as you can imagine. In the …
Accepted by Japanese society as I learned more Japanese (Japanese)
Paulo Issamu Hirano October 18, 2016
(Japanese) In my early days in Japan, when I couldn’t understand Japanese, I think that …
My daughter’s identity (Japanese)
Paulo Issamu Hirano October 18, 2016
(Japanese) I let my daughter decide it. I don’t tell her that she is Brazilian …
My daughter couldn’t fit in Japan, so I decided to go back to America (Japanese)
Hachiro Ohtomo July 17, 2016
(Japanese) So I decided to go back to Japan for a while, and I did. …
Facing discrimination in America (Japanese)
Hachiro Ohtomo July 17, 2016
(Japanese) I don’t think people would ask me, ‘Can you do the job?’ if I …
Not too concerned about learning Japanese when he was growing up in Brazil (Portuguese)
Antonio Shinkiti Shikota October 19, 2016
(Portuguese) My name is Antonio Shinkiti Shikota. I was born in Campinas [in the state …
Kindergarten in Davao, Philippines
Sawako Ashizawa Uchimura July 12, 2017
I went to kindergarten in Nishi-Honganji when we were still in Davao, and the – …
How I started learning social work (Japanese)
Yoshiko Yamaguchi August 28, 2015
(Japanese) I was encouraged to go back to school and start something, so I first …
Grandfather raised in the hotel business
Robert T. Fujioka April 25, 2018
My grandfather was raised in the hotel business so he had to learn how to …
Requested assignment in Europe to avoid combat in the Korean War
Tom Yuki March 22, 2018
I graduated high school in 1953. Of course my father told me you’re going to …
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