Japanese deep in Amazon jungle celebrate 100 years of immigration

SHOTLIST Tome Acu, Para State - May 2008 1. Wide shot - left pan - Tome Acu street scene to Agricultural Cooperative building 2. Ethnic Japanese children in street 3. Pick-up truck in rural area 4. Ethnic Japanese men in back of pick-up truck 5. Japanese farmers at a bimonthly field day discussing new techniques - pan - shows pepper plants (these green balls will turn into black pepper when dried). Farmer talks to another in Japanese, laughs 6. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Yukio Eikawa, Farmer "This is not like Japan. Japan is an island and there is no land for us. But here it's different. If you like to work you can have land, that is the advantage". 7. Man praying in Buddhist temple. This is Hashimi Yamada, the eldest of the local Japanese community. 8. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Hashimi Yamada, Farmer "In the very beginning we suffered, but thank God, from the 1950's on, there was the harvesting of pepper which gradually brought progress to our municipality and the state". 9. Various photographs of early Japanese settlers, dates unknown (no restrictions) 10. Statue of first cooperative founder in front of Cultural and Agricultural Association building 11. Various of ethnic Japanese children in schoolroom 12. Various of ethnic children outside school 13. Children showing example early Japanese migrant's house in woods planted by the community. 14. SOUNDBITE : (Portuguese) Marcela Sakaguchi (10 years old) "The Japanese founded this place. Before, they used to live in this house here". 15. Schoolgirl shows snake in a glass jar 16. Various of Eiko Ito, teaching another woman how to wear the Kimono 17. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Eiko Ito, Ethnic Japanese Woman "It's not just the Kimono. Inside there is the heart of Japanese culture, that is what is really important, I think, culture". 18. Woman in lab weighing fruit 19. Camu camu fruit in plastic bags 20. Japanese carton of Camu Camu juice 21. SOUNDBITE : (Portuguese) Silvio Shibata, Agriculture Technician "Our work now is to restart (planting Camu Camu) through the selection of fruit. We need to find the most productive plants with the greatest quantity of vitamin C". 22. Agricultural technician (Silivio Shibata) showing Camu Camu plants 23. SOUNDBITE : (Portuguese) Silvio Shibata, Agriculture Technician (in back of pick-up truck) "Here we have lemon, cupuacu and cocoa. We are taking the example from nature and practice a kind of agriculture similar to nature itself. That is how the idea of agro forest systems comes up". 24. Man shows several trees and large plants in wide shot 25. SOUNDBITE : (Portuguese) Noriaki Arai, Farmer "This is the Acai tree, this is Cedar-Mahogany, this is the Cupuacu tree, and that is the Brazil Nut tree". 26. Noriaki Arai walks in the forest and tries to hug enormous tree 27. Stream inside the jungle 28. Noriaki Arai walks to tree and touches it 29. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Noriaki Arai, Farmer "This here doesn't get termites, it is good for boards, houses, walls, furniture". 30. Wide stream forms a lake in the forest 31. Noriaki Arai stops and listens to bird song UPSOUND : (Portuguese) Noriaki Arai, Farmer "Lipargus, lives only here in the virgin forest, that bird". (English name of the bird - Screaming Piha; Scientific name : Lipaugus Vociferans; Local: Capitao da Mata /Captain of the forest) 32. Noriaki Arai walks away in forest LEAD IN : Nearly 800 people from Japan landed in the port of Santos in Brazil aboard the steamship Kasato Maru on June 18, 1908. Their arrival began a wave of immigration that has grown to 1.5 million people - now Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside Japan. The Amazonian state of Para has the second largest Japanese community in Brazil. STORYLINE: You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/4b6306637020415085a13bf684575f0f Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork