Brazil-Japan Cooperation: From Complementarity to Shared Value

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. ConclusionChapter 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

Nobuaki Hamaguchi is a professor at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB) at Kobe University, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. degree in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests are in regional/industrial policies and economic integration. From 2011 to date, he has been a program director and a faculty fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI). He is the co-author of Spatial Economics for Building Back Better: The Japanese Experience (Springer 2021) and Cutting the Distance: Benefits and Tensions from the Recent Active Engagement of China, Japan, and Korea in Latin America (Springer 2018).

 



Danielly Ramos, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Institute of International Relations and director of the Center for Global Studies at the University of Brasília (UnB). She coordinates the Asia-Latin America and Caribbean research group (ASIALAC). Her research focuses on Brazil's foreign policy and Asia-Latin America relations. Her publications probe China's foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, inter alia, especially connections between Chinese multinational corporations' investments and Brazil's domestic political economy. She is the co-author of "Rise and Fall of Triumphalism in Brazilian Foreign Policy: The International Strategy of the Workers Party's Governments" in Status and the Rise of Brazil (Palgrave Macmillan) and "One Step Closer: The Politics and the Economics of China's Strategy in Brazil and the Case of the Electric Power Sector" in China-Latin America Relations in the 21st Century (Springer 2020).