This was the phrase used at the beginning of the book "Bauru Kannnai no Hojin (Japanese under the jurisdiction of the Bauru Consulate)", which was an investigation report on the current situations of the Japanese living in the areas around the Noroeste line and the Paulista railway extensions. At one time, Tomoo Handa said in the book "Imin no Seikatsu no Rekishi : Burajiru Nikkei-jin no Ayunda Michi (The History of Migrant Life: the Path of which Japanese have taken in Brazil)", "I have never read anything surpassing the work as a 'record of the anguish' written by his fellow Japanese in Brazil. I believe that all of the agony of the migrants at that time is summarized herein. Every time I write about migrantproblems, I repeatedly read this work, and heap criticism upon criticism. However, only the ethnical sentiments at that time contained in this work, transcending logic, strike directly at the heart".
