Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published April 29, 2009.
Some one hundred years ago, a wave of poor Japanese migrants resettled in Brazil to work on coffee plantations. Today, their descendants number around one million, and are one of Brazil’s most successful minority groups. In the 1990s, Japan offered these descendents work visas and close to 300,000 Japanese-Brazilians have since returned to their ancestral homeland. FSRN’s Jason Strother is in Nagoya where he reports that now, due to the global economic recession, many are heading back to Brazil.
