...Taku Suzuki Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora . By Suma Ikeuchi . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2019 . xvii, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781503607965 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020...

...-Brazilian Immigrant Workers in Japan TAKEYUKI TSUDA Introduction For many decades, Japan was the only advanced industrial country in the world that did not rely on unskilled foreign labor.1 For many observers, the Japanese case demonstrated that a country could fully industrialize and sustain high levels...

...Rafael Reyes-Ruiz No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan . By Daniel Touro Linger . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2001 . xix , 442 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1065 No One...

...Brian Masaru Hayashi Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism . Edited by Jeffrey Lesser . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2003 . xii , 219 pp. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E...

..., the Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center—built in record time by China—experiments with different techniques of vegetable cultivation. Barely 500 meters away, technicians from the Brazilian Corporation of Agricultural Research, known as EMBRAPA, work with Mozambican counterparts from a food security...

...: Race, Representation and Memory , ideas about China and Chinese people played an outsized role in Brazilian debates about freedom, race, and nation. If Brazil's Chinese population was small, fantasies and fears about Chineseness loomed large and mattered politically. Lee brings the intellectual...

... on the factors that led literary productions, serialized in prewar Japanese-Brazilian newspapers, to be framed, in the words of the author, as “marginalized texts” (5)—outside the modern Japanese literature sphere. The objective of the book is to problematize the definition of national literature within...

...Edward Mack 1138 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S anthropologist Daniel Linger contends, its nonexistence, since Japanese Brazilians as a category for analysis is ctitious, based on his interviews with Moacir Aoki and Ce´sar Kawada, two individuals whose contrasting attitudes...

... administration remain and will continue to be a factor. Rodrigo Tavares Maciel and Dani K. Nedal's more nuanced chapter on Sino-Brazilian relations notes that the linking of the two countries in the acronym BRIC risks overstating their mutual complementarities and understating their differences. Reports...

... process of (re)discovering their Brazilian identities, he does not attempt to compare it directly to analogous Japanese concepts such as ninjo or amae which could have clarified some of the obstacles to intercultural communication and acculturation of Nikkeis in Japan. Intriguing but not fully explored...

... to identify the role Brazil plays in that strategy, and to evaluate its impact on the United States, as exemplified in the Brazilian case. Hollerman asserts that "Japan's dependence on the world economy is the structural basis for its international policies" (p. 3) and that in Japan, more than any other major...

... field visits to the Angra dos Reis nuclear plants in Brazil in 2012 and 2015 (see Goldstein 2013 , 2015 ), the nuclear experts that I interviewed were eager to share their thoughts on how the events at Fukushima in 2011 had been incorporated into the Brazilian scenario. In fact, personnel at the plant...

... variables that have shaped the recent migration flows of second- and third-generation Japanese-Brazilian (Brazilian nikkeijin) immigrant workers to Japan. He explains how this temporary movement has increasingly developed into a permanent migration because of economic and sociocultural factors that he...

... Council. In it the experiences and problems of three quite different economies are explored: the Brazilian, sovereign for many decades, still quite underdeveloped, but relatively rich in resources and comparatively free of population pressure; the Indian, sovereign only recently, with an enormous...

.... For instance, Fernando de Holanda Barbosa speaks to the greater openness of the Brazilian economy. Yet, in October 1998, President Cardoso is pursuing a policy of maintaining a strong real with domestic interest rates of 40 percent. The impact on Brazilian competitiveness and investment from this policy could...

... of the historical relationship between Japan and Brazil with regards to coffee, which offers an augmenting approach to the topic of the Japanese Brazilian minority in contemporary Japan. Coffee arrived in Brazil in 1727 from Yemen (p. 97). Between 1908 and 1924, approximately 35,000 Japanese entered Brazil to work...

... Brazilians, encountering systematic discrimination in Japan, respond by espousing national “Brazilian” identities contrasted with negatively valuated “Japanese” identities, rather than cultivating a transnational, “Nikkei” identity, thereby reifying the national frame. 12 The problem, then, is not just...

... Hak Kyung Cha's works of various genres, Teo singles out the influence of the Brazilian concrete poetry movement on Cha's transpacific temporal and spatial aesthetics, especially in her “concrete translations”—“the arrangement of many moving parts to compose a translation” (110). While amazed...

.... xii, 284 pp. The major objectives of this book are to characterize the world economic strategy of Japan ("Japan as a headquarters country to identify the role Brazil plays in that strategy, and to evaluate its impact on the United States, as exemplified in the Brazilian case. Hollerman asserts...

.... After some initial enthusiasm, to the committee's surprise, the plant was identified as one known to botanists as the Eupatorium ayapana— a Brazilian weed, allegedly introduced to South Asia barely a hundred years before. The consequences of the identification were complex. The committee itself...