Brazil—Japan Cooperation: From Complementarity to Shared Value

This is an open access book. Relations between Brazil and Japan progressed dynamically in the 1960s and 1970s, centering on the substantial complementarity between Japan’s needing primary goods to sustain high economic growth and Brazil’s seeking non-hegemonic investment to invigorate its resource potential. Now that this complementarity has lost significance, the two countries are restructuring their relations to protect shared values of democracy, freedom, the rule of law, and the need for maintaining good relations with both China and the United States. Analyzed here is the development of this renewed bilateral relationship in multiple directions: productivity, global environment and health, migration, and triangular cooperation in third countries’ development. Facing the prospect of a declining population, Japan may become more open to international migration, but the experience with Japanese-descent Brazilian workers since the amendment of the migration control law in 1990 presents many lessons and challenges for the symbiosis of multicultural groups. Brazil, for its part, needs to address social inequality. To this end, it is fundamental to improve the quality of work. This book argues that Brazil and Japan can benefit from cooperation in managing those country-specific issues. It also discusses ways that Brazil and Japan can profit from coordinating action on global problems such as greenhouse gas reduction, mitigation of tropical diseases, healthy community building, and high-quality infrastructure for poverty reduction.

Introduction (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Danielly Ramos)

 

Part I: Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Global Perspective

Chapter 1 Brazil - Japan Relationship: A Partnership? (Henrique Altemani de Oliveira and Antonio Carlos Lessa)

1. Introduction        

2. From an economic standpoint to a political perspective: basis for a strategic partnership?

3. Phases of the bilateral relationship during the Cold War

4. First attempts to resume the relationship and the importance of the Asian Crisis

5. Conclusion

Chapter 2 Global Environmental Governance and ODA from Japan to Brazil (Shuichiro Masukata, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, and Nanahira de Rabelo e Sant''Anna)

1.    Introduction

2.    Multilateral-global dimension/level

3.    Japan''s cooperation trajectory and "green" ODA to Brazil

4.    Subnational-local: Prodecer in Paracatu and Agroforestry Systems in Tomé-Açu

5.    Conclusion Lessons learned from cooperation in environmental sustainability

Chapter 3 Global Health (Rodrigo Pires de Campos and Saori Kawai)

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Chapter 4 Trilateral Cooperation for Infrastructure (Akiko Koyasu and Danielly Ramos)

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Part II: Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Bilateral Perspective

Chapter 5 Brazilian Workers in Japan and Public Policies for Promoting their Social Integration with a Focus on Basic Education to the Children (Mauricio Bugarin and Keiichi Yamazaki)

1. Recent trends of the Brazilian workers and their families in Japan

2. Challenges faced by the children

3. Public intervention

4. Formal modeling: Schooling choices and government intervention

5. Conclusions

Chapter 6 Dissemination of Japanese Quality Control in Brazil (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Silvio Miyazaki)

1.    Introduction

2.    Japanese TQC transfer to Brazil until the 1980s

3.    Japanese-style TQC in Brazil since the 1990s

4.    Contemporary cases of TQC in Brazil

5.    Final remarks: TQC in Japan-Brazil relation in the next stage

 

Conclusion: Structuring Brazil-Japan Cooperation from Complementarity to Shared Value  (Nobuaki Hamaguchi and Danielly Ramos)