<!-- 616.html -->  <div id="pagebody_outline">    <div id="left_box">      <div id="title_box">      <div id="titie_box_top"><!-- Image --></div>      <div id="midashi">Japanese singer popular among Japanese-Brazilian community which is celebrating the 100th anniversary of immigration</div>      <div id="title_box_left">Yumi Inoue, who have been making performance at Japanese community for ten years</div>      <div id="title_box_right">        <div id="title_box_right_top"><!-- Image --></div>        <div id="title_box_right_text">MS　kani,the postguraguate student of japan Univ Interviewed             </div>        <div id="title_box_right_bottom"><!-- Image --></div>      </div>      <div id="titie_box_bottom"><!-- Image --></div>    </div>  <div id="bold_text"></div>      <div id="article">        <div id="article_left">                                  <img src="/english/images/feature/616_feature_06.JPG" width="140" alt="feature_06">                                <div id="article_text"></div>                                  <img src="/english/images/feature/616_feature_08.JPG" width="140" alt="feature_08">                              </div>        <div id="article_right"><font color="#990000">1:What brings you to sing songs in Brazil?</font><br /><br /><br />I watched Japanese Brazilian sing Japanese songs with full respect in singing contest in Sao Paulo by NHK on TV.<br />Then I asked my manager to give me an opportunity to “sing Japanese songs for Japanese Brazilian in Brazil”.<br />Various people including my manager helped me make performance in Brazil, though I didn’t have any acquaintances and didn’t have any human relationships in South America.<br />First performance was successful, and I was asked to “make another performance there the following year”.<br />This is the 10th year I have performed at Japanese community in South America including Brazil.<br />I was anxious lest I should make myself understood by people in South America who have different language and culture from me, but I found that if we “enjoyed songs”, it didn’t matter what race they were, and what nationality they had.<br /><br /><font color="#990000">2:This is the 100th year people have immigrated into Brazil, what do you think about that?</font><br /><br /><br />First-generation and second-generation Japanese immigrants have established Japanese community of today with considerable difficulty.<br />This year we will have many memorial events both in Japan and Brazil, but next year, the 101st year is more important, I suppose. <br />I’d like to continue to sing “Obrigado, Kasatomaru”, a song for “Japanese immigrants” to prevent these events from resulting in a boom, hoping that “everyone keeps in mind that there are many people who had difficulties in living a foreign country as immigrants”. </div>        <div class="both10"></div>        <div></div>      </div>      <div class="both10"></div>                         </div>  <!-- end of left_box -->  </div><!-- end of pagebody_outline -->