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Summary:

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.

Table of Contents:

• Brazil - Japan Relationship: A Partnership? (Henrique Altemani de Oliveira and Antonio Carlos Lessa)
• Global Environmental Governance and ODA from Japan to Brazil (Shuichiro Masukata, Cristina Y. A. Inoue, and Nanahira de Rabelo e Sant'Anna)
• Global Health (Rodrigo Pires de Campos and Saori Kawai)
• Trilateral Cooperation for Infrastructure (Akiko Koyasu and Danielly Ramos)
• 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).

Contributors:

Hamaguchi, Nobuaki , editor

Ramos, Danielly , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

International relations

International economic relations

Globalization

Diplomacy

Physical Description:

X, 214 pages 17 illustrations, 13 illustrations in color : online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

ISBNs:

9789811940293
9788981194024 (3)

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Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-981-19-4029-3

OCLC Numbers:

1374484869