From the latter half of 1980, the number of Japanese-Brazilians who came to Japan to find work was increased remarkably. While Japan was in the bubble economy, Brazil hadn’t been improved the employment opportunity and the standard of wages. It was because immigrations of Japanese-Brazilians kept increasing. Japanese-Brazilian could not find their jobs very well. They still have the serious problems. Especially, I state about two problems――language, living in Japan.

First, it is difficult to find their jobs for Japanese-Brazilians who cannot speak Japanese. Moreover, because most of them have no skills to work, cannot get respectable job. And what is even worse, it is the situation that many Japanese-Brazilian children cannot receive education in Japan. It is said that over the half number of Japanese-Brazilian children doesn’t receive education in Japan. In Japan, support of education for foreign people isn’t enough to be provided. As a result, such children also cannot get the job, the Japanese-Brazilian are forced strict living.

Second, it is a problem that losing the Japanese-Brazilians’ job because of the depression after the collapse of the bubble economy. Most of the Japanese-Brazilians are temporary worker.  Because Japanese companies tried to cut personal expenses, many of them who cannot speak Japanese and haven’t skills are fired from temporary jobs. Not a few Japanese-Brazilians go back their country to find their job for their living. Also, their poverty is a one of the cause that no education of Japanese-Brazilian children as stated above.

Many differences of lifestyle between Japanese-Brazilian and Japanese caused some problems. In a certain apartment complex, Japanese people and Japanese-Brazilians live together. While Japanese tell that Brazilians have no manners, Japanese-Brazilians tell that Japanese are so stiff. The large-size refuses and noises by Japanese-Brazilians who don’t know Japanese rules are problems in the apartment complex. However, they don’t mean any harms, the compromise is necessity each other.

However there are a lot of the third or fourth-generation Japanese-Brazilians, their living is still in unstable condition. Now, we are demanded to live with foreign people who have different theirs sense of values. For this reason, Japanese-Brazilians hope that the systems are established for them, for example, the system that give the equal opportunity of education for Japanese-Brazilian children or the system of employment that Japanese-Brazilians can work as not temporary worker but regular worker. I think Japan should respond to them.

by Ayako Takagi