Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!202.215.53.66!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Quckdraw McGraw Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:54:32 +0900 Lines: 50 Message-ID: <3F9E8328.9000002@hotmail.com> References: <1g3jmtj.1pkzoxxr0h63vN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com> <94a6da7.0310280637.7006047e@posting.google.com> Reply-To: declan_murphy@hotmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.215.53.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1067352756 36112752 202.215.53.66 (16 [139419]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:6954 Rafael Caetano wrote: > "mr.sumo snr." wrote in message > >>BTW does anyone know the primary method by which >>Brazilians working in Japan send money to their home >>country? > > There are Banco do Brasil (the biggest Brazilian bank) branches in > some cities with large concentrations of Brazilians. You can transfer > money to any other bank in Brazil, in dollars or real. AFAIK there isn't a branch in Okazaki but there is one 20 mins away in Toyohashi and a few further up the road in Shizuoka. A Brazilian girl who worked for me until last month just used to transfer via the post office. Two Colombians who were working here just used the local shinkin bank. > I found out that I can send money thru them even if I don't have an > account there, BUT since there's no branch in Fukuoka I'd have to > _mail_ the money to the bank. I had never heard of such a thing. I > know that Japan is safe, etc, but I don't feel comfortable sending my > money by mail. Only time I've done that was using the post office system (genkin kakitome futo) - paid my first 6 months tuition to Yamasa from bumfuck Gunma that way and was amazed that they didn't rob me blind. >>I remember someone telling me about 7 >>years ago that the total annual non-commerical wire >>transfers from Japan to Brazil was something like USD $2 >>billion - that's got to be worth an entry >>in the Brazilian budget accounts. > > Assuming that there are about 250 thousand Brazilians working here, I > thought U$2 billion was an overestimate. I checked a > Brazilian-Japanese newspaper and the reported figure is actually U$2,4 > billion! But I don't know where do they get these numbers. That gives > roughly U$10000/person/year. A bit too high, I think. Perhaps that is inflated by the inclusion in non-commercial transfers of a number of returnees, purchases of Brazilian assests by Brazilians in Japan etc. USD$800 per month average per person still seems a bit high though, even with the amount of overtime many Brazilians here are working. -- A hand on the bush is worth two birds on the arm.