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Aaron Litvin was a Latin American Studies concentrator in the Romance Languages and Literatures department at Harvard. The idea for a film about Brazil and Japan grew out of Litvin’s senior thesis, entitled “Brazilian Okazaki, a case study of Brazilian migration to Japan.” During his time as an undergraduate, he visited Brazil and studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Okazaki, Japan...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brazilian Migrants Start Anew in Japan | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...undergraduate in Okazaki, I wished I had a camera to capture the lives and experiences of the individuals I had met. I found it limiting to just do a thesis in writing that wouldn’t show their lives and that few people would read. I wanted to create something vivid, and I wanted more people to have the opportunity to learn about this movement,” says Aaron Litvin...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brazilian Migrants Start Anew in Japan | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...burden, and Washington has begun to make noises about Japan picking up more of the tab-U.S. Ambassador Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters last month "we would hope they would be able to spend more." But this is unlikely. Even as staunch a conservative as Hisahiko Okazaki, a former diplomat and an Abe foreign-policy adviser, says that Japan should focus on cementing the U.S. alliance, not on pursuing its own military destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sayonara, Samurai | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...their muted reaction. While Pyongyang, predictably, took Tokyo to task for "converting the Japanese islands into a 'war state,'" the Chinese Foreign Ministry merely expressed hope that the change would not derail Japan's "peaceful development." "It's significant that China didn't really criticize it," says Hisahiko Okazaki, a foreign-policy adviser to Abe. It probably doesn't hurt that Japan's defense budget, squeezed by government social programs and massive public debt, is still likely to hover around 1% of GDP, or about $41 billion this year. China's, meanwhile, is increasing at a double-digit rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Military by Any Other Name | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...countries have very different national values and are competing for resources and influence. Going back to the close relations of the 1980s is no longer realistic. "[Reinterpretation] would make it clear that the balance of power will be between the U.S.-Japan alliance and China," says Hisahiko Okazaki, an arch-conservative and former diplomat who has become a foreign-policy adviser to Abe. "China has to deal with this reality. We have to be prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Abe Enigma | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

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