10. Catarina Noriko Iemura: "If it was up to me, I'd never leave Japan"

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xiii
4. Note on Terminology and Names xviii
5. Part One: Orientations
6. I. Global, Local, Personal 3
7. 2. The Blue Hemisphere 19
8. Part Two: Scenes
9. 3. Postmodern Times 47
10. 4. Middle-School Days 59
11. 5. Eating Brazil 78
12. Part Three: Persons
13. 6. Eduardo Mori: "One day I'm going home" 101
14. 7. Elena Queiroz de Assis Takeda: "I defeated them all" 121
15. 8. Bernardo Kinjoh: "All the doors would open" 137
16. 9. Miriam Moreira: "I lived there, I was born there, I grew up there!" 159
17. 10. Catarina Noriko Iemura: "If it was up to me, I'd never leave Japan" 175
18. 11. Elisa Aoshima: "To be Brazilian is to be clever" 197
19. 12. Rosa Kitagawa: "Send me a blond wig!" 215
20. 13. Erika Miyagi: "Even I don't know how I feel" 233
21. 14. Naomi Mizutake: "The eighth wonder of the world" 253
22. Part Four: The Nation in the Mind
23. 15. National Banners 281
24. 16. Human Warmth 296
25. 17. Discontinuities 310
26. Glossary 323
27. References 327
28. Index 341