« The Japanese wants you to embody him. He wants you to think Japanese, eat Japanese, speak Japanese… If you don’t do this, you will be rejected, you will suffer », confides Ibrahim Diarra, sixty years old Malian encountered at a crossroad of Shin-Okubo,an area of the Japanese capital, built around Korean shops. He has been living in Tokyo for 10 years . Today They are almost 2 millions to share with Ibrahim Diarra the status of foreign resident in Japan. Approximately 2% of the total population. The majority of them are Chinese, Korean, Brasilian or Phillipino…. Even if the issue of immigration doesn’t occupy the media and political space as in Europe, it is there rampant and almost taboo… In may 2013, I walked the street of Tokyo for 10 days, in search of long term migrants.
Camille Millerand collaborates regularly with the french press (Le Monde, Marianne, Jeune Afrique, Télérama…) and develops personal projects.
