Brazilian immigrants have it hard in Japan. Can music be a solution? www.latimes.com

But the elementary school students jump around the room, screaming and laughing.
The students and teachers are Brazilian, and the music includes samba and bossa nova.
Music teacher Rafael Kinoshita, 35, leads students in song at a Brazilian school in Oizumi, Japan.
Kinoshita and a third teacher, Vitor Novak, a 20-year-old Brazilian born in Japan, take the violin students to another classroom.
He hopes one day to attract Japanese students and create a bicultural orchestra to foster understanding between immigrants and their hosts.