Ten years ago Kimihiro Tsumura, a professor at Hamamatsu Gakuin University, couldn’t help but notice all the young Brazilians in his city and that many weren’t in school.
Tsumura found that young Brazilians didn’t interact much with Japanese people, though most could speak the language. And while almost all went through the public school system, only 30 percent continued on to high school. In fact, a good portion didn’t even finish junior high school, which means they didn’t fulfill their compulsory education requirement. The fact that so many dropped out indicated to him, as he told Tokyo Shimbun, “that the government didn’t care about them.” He became even more interested and studied their lives. Starting in 2007, filmmaker Mayu Nakamura recorded these interactions. She has edited her footage into a documentary called “Lonesome Swallows,” which was released last month.
that statement of “young brazilians in his city” throws me off because it sounds like that they just appeared out of nowhere and are having a hard time living there in Japan, but I guess I need to watch the movie in order to understand better…
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