Brazil―Japan Cooperation: From Complementarity to Shared Value

✍ Scribed by Nobuaki Hamaguchi (editor), Danielly Ramos (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 1st ed. 2023
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Preface
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Part I Brazil–Japan Cooperation from General Perspectives
1 Introduction
1.1 Why Is It Essential to Study Bilateral Cooperation in International Relations?
1.2 Concepts of Cooperation in Critical Theories of International Relations
1.3 International Relations of Brazil
1.4 International Relations of Japan
1.5 Japan Viewed from Brazil
1.6 Brazil–Japan Relation
1.7 Areas of Interest in Brazil–Japan Cooperation
1.8 Outline of This Book
Notes
References
2 Brazil–Japan Relationship: A Partnership?
2.1 Introduction
2.2 From an Economic Standpoint to a Political Perspective: Basis for a Strategic Partnership?
2.3 Phases of the Bilateral Relationship During the Cold War
2.4 First Attempts to Resume the Relationship and the Importance of the Asian Crisis
2.4.1 Perspectives of Reapprochement of Brazil and Japan in the Twenty-First Century
2.4.2 Difficulties Caused by Crises and Abe’s Efforts to Strengthen the Partnership “Together”
2.5 Conclusion
Notes
References
3 Japan’s ODA to Developing Countries in the Health Sector: Overall Trend and Future Prospects
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Toward an Initial and Provisional Analytical Framework of International Cooperation and Foreign Aid for Health
3.2.1 Conceptual and Theoretical Notes and Debates on International Cooperation and Foreign Aid
3.2.2 Conceptual and Theoretical Notes and Debates on Foreign Aid and International Cooperation for Health
3.3 Japan’s ODA for the Health Sector from 1990 to 2020
3.4 Final Considerations
Notes
References
Part II Brazil–Japan Cooperation from Global Perspectives
4 Global Environmental Governance and ODA from Japan to Brazil
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Multilateral-Global Dimension/Level
4.2.1 Conceptual Lenses—Global Sustainability Governance
4.2.2 Brazil’s and Japan’s Positions in the Global Environmental Arena
4.3 Japan’s Cooperation Trajectory and “Green” ODA to Brazil
4.3.1 Historical Overview
4.3.2 Japan–Brazil Development Cooperation
4.3.3 The Environmental Dimension in Japan–Brazil’s Development Cooperation
4.4 Subnational–Local: PRODECER in Paracatu and Agroforestry Systems in Tomé-Açu
4.4.1 PRODECER: Report on Environmental Sustainability
4.4.2 Agroforestry Systems: Report on Environmental Sustainability
4.5 Conclusion Lessons Learned from Cooperation in Environmental Sustainability
Notes
References
5 Japan’s Relationship with Portuguese-Speaking Africa: Considering the Future of Brazil–Japan Cooperation
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Japan’s African Diplomacy2
5.2.1 The African Development Conference (TICAD): A Turning Point
5.2.2 Relationship Between Portuguese-Speaking Africa and Japan
5.2.3 Japan’s Foreign Policy and Infrastructure Overseas Expansion Strategy and Africa
5.3 Brazil’s African Diplomacy
5.4 Triangular Cooperation Between Japan and Brazil in Africa: Possibilities for Future Dynamics and Innovative Techniques
5.5 Conclusions
Notes
References
Part III Brazil–Japan Cooperation from Bilateral Perspectives
6 Brazilian Workers in Japan and Public Policies for Promoting Their Social Integration with a Focus on Basic Education for Children
6.1 Recent Trends for Brazilian Workers and Their Families in Japan
6.1.1 Short History of Brazilian Immigrants to Japan
6.1.2 Difference Between Brazilian Workers and Other Nationalities
6.1.3 Labor Market Analysis
6.2 Challenges Faced by the Children
6.2.1 Ten Thousand Children to Target
6.2.2 Difficulty in Entering High School
6.2.3 The Problem of Truancy (“evasão escolar”)
6.2.4 The Problem of Family Communication
6.3 Public Intervention
6.3.1 National Level: A New Law
6.3.2 Nation-Wide Reaction of Municipal Governments
6.3.3 Policies of Individual Local Governments in Shizuoka Prefecture
6.3.4 Kanagawa Prefecture and Yokohama City
6.3.5 Co-Production and NPOs
6.3.6 Private Business Sector Initiative
6.4 Formal Modeling: Schooling Choices and Government Intervention
6.4.1 The Decision-Theoretic Approach: The Brazilian Families’ Schooling Decisions
6.4.2 The Mechanism-Design Approach: The Japanese Government’s Intervention
6.5 Conclusions
Notes
References
7 Dissemination of Japanese Quality Control in Brazil
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Japanese TQC Transfer to Brazil Until the 1980s
7.3 Japanese-Style TQC in Brazil Since the 1990s
7.4 Contemporary Cases of TQC in Brazil
7.4.1 Public E-Procurement Through Bolsa Eletrônica de Compras (BEC), São Paulo State Government
7.4.2 Toyota Production System in Santa Cruz Hospital
7.5 Final Remarks: TQC in Japan–Brazil Relation in the Next Stage
Notes
References
8 Conclusion: Structuring Brazil–Japan Cooperation from Complementarity to Shared Value
8.1 Chapter Summary
8.2 Concluding Remarks on Structuring Brazil–Japan Cooperation from Complementarity to Shared Value
Index